Dyer v. Skadan
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Ingham; Peck, J., presiding. Bill by Joseph L. Dyer against Frank Skadan, administrator of the estate of Mary J. Dyer, deceased, and others, to restore a lost deed. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The relief sought by the bill in this case is the restoration and establishment of an unrecorded *349warranty deed, claimed to have been executed to the complainant, Joseph L. Dyer, by his wife, Mary J. Dyer, during her lifetime, conveying a farm of 120 acres in the township of White Oak, upon which they resided, which deed was lost after the grantor’s death. It is the claim of the complainant that he paid for the land, and that the deed was taken in the name of his wife because he was then ill, and it was thought he would not recover; that, recognizing his right to the property, his wife…
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