Shelden v. Bennett

This is a foreclosure suit. To a proper understanding of the issues a brief statement of the dealings between the parties seems essential.

The complainant is a member of the firm of Allan Shelden & Co., wholesale dealers in merchandise in the city of Detroit. The defendant Patience A. Bennett was in business as a retail dealer at Ovid, and commenced making purchases of said firm in 1871, her husband ~W. O. Bennett apparently acting as her general business manager. On the seventh day of October, 1872, an indebtedness had accrued from the defendant to Allan Shelden & Co. amounting to between…