Culbertson v. H. Witbeck Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Marquette. (Stone, J.) Bill to quiet title and for an accounting. Complainant appeals. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, C. J.
One Edward C. Wilder, in his life-time, acquired a one-eighth interest in about 14,000 acres of land in the Upper Peninsula of this State. The first conveyance to him was by William A. Pratt, who owned an undivided equitable quarter interest in this tract of land, the legal title being in Wright and Manning. This conveyance or assignment was dated January 8, 1857, and the lands conveyed were described .as ,fone thousand *470acres, undivided,” of the whdle tract. January 30, 1857, Pratt conveyed the balance of the one-eighth interest to-Wilder, it being described as an interest equal to “seven…
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