Brown v. Brown

Graves, O. J.

This bill was filed May 11, 1876, for the specific performance of an alleged oral agreement relating to certain premises in the city of Ionia, and the court made a decree for performance. A claim was set up for an accounting but was waived on the hearing. The controversy is between two brothers and it dates several years back of the filing of the bill. For a particular understanding of the dispute and of the actual case to which the judgment of the court must be confined it is necessary to recur to the bill and answer after a few preliminary words by way of preface.

In 1865 the…