Carney v. Loveday

Plaintiffs had decree quieting title by adverse possession. The testimony was not as certain, in some respects, as it could have been and, as the conveyances described the premises by metes and bounds and no maps were presented, some facts must be stated rather indefinitely.

John H. Carney owned a farm, government lot No. 1, touching the south arm of Pine Lake (Lake Charlevoix) in Charlevoix county. In 1896 he conveyed to David Ward of Detroit, for $500, a strip along the lake shore, by ordinary warranty deed, describing the land by two metes and bounds descriptions, north and south…