Lucas v. Johnson

Thomas W. Lucas, also referred to as Reverend Lucas, plaintiff herein, brought suit against his grandnephew Wilbert Johnson, defendant herein, in order to have the defendant’s interest as a joint vendee in a certain land contract decreed to be an equitable mortgage. Plaintiff was described by the trial judge as an old and infirm man and his attorney ascribed his very unsatisfactory testimony to this condition. We limit our opinion herein solely to those questions that arose at the hearing and-were set forth in the statement of questions involved in appellant’s brief.

Claude Darby, a Flint,…