Campau v. Dubois

This is an action of ejectment. Plaintiffs in error, who were defendants below, are in possession of lot 94, section 1, of the Governor and Judges’ Plan of Detroit, being a city lot on Congress street, bordering on and partly including the bed of an old water course known as the river Savoyard. The lot came to Daniel J. Campau, on partition of the estate of his father, Joseph Campau, who died in 1863. Plaintiffs below set up title as heirs at law of Barnabas Campau and Jacques Campau, brothers of Joseph Campau, whom they claim to have been tenants in common, holding each an undivided sixth of…