Emerson v. Atwater
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in chancery from Saginaw Circuit, where decree was given for complainant. The pleadings and testimony in the case are so fully stated in the opinion, that it is deemed unnecessary to give any further abstract of them.
1Opinion of the Court
Manning J.:
The bill in this case is filed to enforce certain alleged equities, which complainant claims to have, in one hundred and eighty-one acres of land, and the proceeds thereof, conveyed by complainant to defendant Atwater on the 27th day of May, 1853.
The conveyance is absolute on its face. The bill states there were three several mortgages on the land at the time it was conveyed to Atwater; one to Charles W. Rockwell and John A. Rockwell, for $5,161.70, dated 19th February, 1847, and another of the same date to William L. P. Little, for $1,338.30 ; and a third to Daniel L. C. Eaton and…
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