Legal Opinion

Yale v. Stevenson

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided November 19, 1885PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Error to Isabella. (ITarfc, J.) Ejectment. Defendants bring error. A wife may mortgage her property to secure her husband’s debt: Watson v. Thurber 11 Mich. 457 ; DeVries v. Conklin 22 Mich. 259 ; and though the husband join in the mortgage, still her separate property will be bound : Frickee v. Donner 35 Mich. 151; lots fenced in one parcel may lie so sold on mortgage foreclosure: 2 Jones on Mortgages, 1618, 1857-8; Germ,an Banlc v. Stump/ 73 Mo. 311; Bamerson v. Marvin 8…

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Error to Isabella. (ITarfc, J.) Ejectment. Defendants bring error. A wife may mortgage her property to secure her husband’s debt: Watson v. Thurber 11 Mich. 457 ; DeVries v. Conklin 22 Mich. 259 ; and though the husband join in the mortgage, still her separate property will be bound : Frickee v. Donner 35 Mich. 151; lots fenced in one parcel may lie so sold on mortgage foreclosure: 2 Jones on Mortgages, 1618, 1857-8; Germ,an Banlc v. Stump/ 73 Mo. 311; Bamerson v. Marvin 8 Barb. 9 ; Griswold v. Fowler 24 id. 135 ; Anderson v. Austin 34 id. 319. Land described in parcels must be so sold on…

1Opinion of the CourtMorse, C. J.

The plaintiff and appellee brought an action of ejectment in the circuit court for the county of Isabella to recover lots 3 and 4 in block 24 of the village of Mount Pleasant. Plaintiff, who was then owner in fee of the premises, mortgaged these lots, together with other property situated in the village of Isabella, to defendant Stevenson, November 3, 1868. Iler husband joined with her in the mortgage. At the time the mortgage was executed these lots were inclosed by a fence on the outside, and cultivated as one pai-cel by the plaintiff, who lived upon a lot in Isabella. N> house was on these…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Larzelere v. LarzelereMichigan Supreme Court · 1878
  2. Lee v. MasonMichigan Supreme Court · 1862
  3. Udell v. KahnMichigan Supreme Court · 1875

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Shaw v. HillMichigan Supreme Court · 1890
  2. Thompson v. BrowneSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1897
  3. Damon v. DeevesMichigan Supreme Court · 1887

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