Alpena Lumber Co. v. Fletcher

The purpose of the original bill was to establish the right of complainant’to certain undivided interests in pine lands, in which defendant Fletcher also had interests, and to have partition made. The complainant having subsequently made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, a supplemental bill was filed by the assignees having in view the same general ob ject.

The history of the controversy, as disclosed by the pleadings and accompanying exhibits, is substantially as follows r

In the summer of 1872, George Prentiss, then resident in Detroit, entered into negotiations with George N.…