Gilman v. Riopelle
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of ejectment to recover 20 Ty=0 acres upon Private Claim 61, in town 3 south, range 11 east, being Ecorse, Wayne County; and one half acre nearly adjoining. Both parcels lie east of the north branch of the Ecorse river, and between the river and the northern line of town 3. The claim seems never to have been paténted to any person by the U. S. Government.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of ejectment to recover 20 Ty=0 acres upon Private Claim 61, in town 3 south, range 11 east, being Ecorse, Wayne County; and one half acre nearly adjoining. Both parcels lie east of the north branch of the Ecorse river, and between the river and the northern line of town 3. The claim seems never to have been paténted to any person by the U. S. Government. Plaintiff 'claims title through one Ambroise Riopelle, whom he alleges claimed the land at, and befor’e, the evacuation, of this country by the English, under the Jay Treaty in 1796. That Dominique…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley Oh. J.
The exceptions to the rulings of the Circuit Judge, upon which the plaintiff in error insists in this court, will be noticed in the order in which they appear in the record.
The action was ejectment, brought by Riopelle to recover two parcels of land, the one containing twenty acres and *157seventy-four one hundreths of an acre, and the other one-half an acre, in private claim sixty-one, in the township of Ecorse, both of which parcels lie east of the north branch of the Ecorse river, and between the river and the northern line of the surveyed township number three south of range…
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