La Fountain v. Dee

This is an action of ejectment for an undivided one-fourteenth part of a tract of land in the township of Ecorse, Wayne county, comprising a part of private claim No. 42. The case is very similar in its facts to Chabert v. Russell, 109 Mich. 571, which was ejectment for another portion of this same tract. This case differs from that in the proof offered to show adverse possession, and to rebut such proof; and the claim is also made that, as the defendants and their grantors were tenants in common with the plaintiff, no ouster is shown which would set the statute of limitations to running. The…