Barker v. Klingler

This is an action in ejectment to try title to certain property conveyed by Mary Whit-ford, a common grantor, to both plaintiffs and defendants.

Prior to 1933, one Edmund E. Whitford was the sole owner of about 20 acres of land in Orleans township, Ionia county, Michigan, lying adjacent to Long lake. About 1933, defendants, Bruce O. Klingler and wife, entered into an agreement to purchase some of this land. 'No land contract was ever executed by 'the parties, but the purchase price was paid in full by the defendants who went into possession of the land and in 1935 built a summer cottage.…