Angeloff v. Smith

This is a bill for partition of a lot in Detroit. Defendants, by cross-bill, claimed plaintiff was barred by laches from asserting title, and they had decree. The charge of laches is that plaintiff stood by for many years and saw her former husband, Vasile Huja, and grantees through him dealing with the property and made no claim of title.

The oral testimony is quite uncertain and fragmentary and the record evidence, therefore, is of particular weight. May 22, 1917, plaintiff, then 17 years of age, and Huja, then her husband, took title to the lot by the entireties. The deed was duly recorded…