Fisher v. Fobes
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Oakland Circuit. The case was heard below on pleadings and proofs, and a decree passed for complainant, from which the defendant appealed. The nature of the pleadings, and the facts established by the proofs, are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
The facts in this case are few and simple, and in regard! to the most of them there is no dispute. In the fall of' *4561854, complainant resided in Bennington, New York, upon a parcel of land which he had purchased of the Holland Land Company, and upon which he was then owing about thirteen hundred dollars, which he was unable to pay. The company were demanding payment, and had sent an officer, whether with legal process or simply as their agent, we are not informed, to remove him from the premises, when one Stillman Goodenough, complainant’s brother-in-law, intervened, and succeeded in…
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