Campau v. Lafferty

Plaintiff brought ejectment for an undivided interest in certain lands in Grosse Point, Wayne county, which were patented by the United States to the heirs of Nicholas Campau September 2, 1840. Title was *430regularly traced into plaintiff from various heirs, and among others from Catherine Lafferty, the mother of defendant, who was one of the heirs living at the date of the patent. She deeded her interest August 20, 1845, to Joseph Campau, father of plaintiff, and to Barnabas Campau, and took back from them on the same day a life lease of the entire property. She died in October, 1854. After her…