Wright v. Wilson
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Hillsdale Circuit. This was an action of ejectment, brought to recover the possession of certain lands in Hillsdale County.
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Error to Hillsdale Circuit. This was an action of ejectment, brought to recover the possession of certain lands in Hillsdale County. Upon the trial, the plaintiff produced and offered in evidence the record of a certain patent, purporting to be the record of a patent from the Hnited States to Oliver Johnson, conveying “The east half of section thirty, in township five, south of range four, west” — said patent being dated August 10, 1839. The said plaintiff then produced and offered in evidence the record of a certain deed, purporting to be the record of a deed from Oliver Johnson and wife to…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
The plaintiff below — defendant in error — having introduced the patent from the Hnited States to Oliver Johnson, dated August 10, 1839, and the deed from Johnson to him•self, dated November 23, 1858, had thus established full title in himself, and might properly have rested without further evidence, until that deduction of title had been invalidated by the defendant.
But the deed from Johnson to plaintiff, after conveying the land, went on to declare that its object was to cure the defects in a power of attorney and certain deeds undertaken to be executed under and dependent…
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- Chambers v. HillMichigan Supreme Court · 1876
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