MacLeod v. Hamilton

The bill herein was filed to foreclose a land contract. Defendant, by answer, set up that the grantor did not have a marketable title because of an easement for a drain granted the county of Oakland in 1876, and, by cross-bill, asked rescission for that reason and because of an alleged slight shortage of land and the refusal of plaintiff to release lots. There was also the claim by defendant that the lots were described as “in Beech Hill Park subdivision,” and there is no such subdivision. In fact the lots are in “Beech Hill subdivision,” and the circuit judge considered the word “park”…