Wilcox v. Musche

On the 6th of June, 1873, Wilcox was owner of lot 18 [of Walker’s subdivision of park lots 49, 50, 51 and 52] in. Detroit, extending from Woodward avenue to Cass avenue, a distance of some five hundred feet, and on that day he borrowed $6500 for three years, and as security gave his personal bond and also a mortgage on the whole of this lot. May 2d, 1875, he sold defendant in error a small part of the lot, being fifty feet front on Cass avenue and about one hundred and eighty feet deep, and equal in value to about one-eighth of the value of the entire lot.

He gave a deed in which his wife…