Dubois v. Campau

Ejectment was brought by plaintiffs against defendant to recover an undivided interest in certain premises in Detroit, whereof one Denis Campau died seized in 1818, from whom it is claimed by plaintiffs that all the parties derive title. The defense rested on long and undisturbed possession, by reason whereof they claimed plaintiffs were barred, by the presumptions which the law raises from adverse possession under the circumstances shown.

Joseph Campau, defendant’s father, had been in undisturbed possession from 1835 till 1863, and defendant under him ever since; and the evidence showed that…