Terry v. McClintock

Graves, _J.

The female defendant, who is the wife of Elias J. Clintoek, subsequent to her marriage but during her minority, received a deed from her uncle, Mr. Dutton, of the east half of lots five and six in block sixty-one of Hoyt’s plat in the city of East Saginaw, and she and her husband went into possession and have since continued to hold and enjoy it. The conveyance to her was made subject to a mortgage however of $2,000 in favor of one Derby, and this burden not only diminished the value of her right in the premises to that amount but was liable to be used to defeat her estate…