Stilson v. Gibbs

This case has twice before been in this Court, and is reported in 40 Mich. 42, and 46 Mich. 215. On the first two trials the defendant had judgments which were reversed; on the third the plaintiff recovered, and the defendant is now the appellant.

The facts are that the plaintiff, in August, 1876, was occupant of a farm in the county of .Kalamazoo, owned by his wife, and had harvested and stored in the barn a crop of wheat. ITe had living with him at the time eleven children, two of whom were over the age of twenty-one, and worked away from home a part of the time. Plaintiff had prepared for…