Fenton v. Steere
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relator applies for mandamus to compel respondent to set aside an order staying proceedings in a partition suit until complainant establishes his title at law, and to enter a final decree. The facts, and points of counsel passed upon by the Court, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
Application for mandamus.. On the twenty-sixth day of November, 1886, the relator, Charles B. Fenton, filed a bill in the circuit court for the county of Mackinac, in chancery, against Annie M. Wendell, *406Eva M. Wendell, and Romain I. Wendell, as defendants, setting forth, in substance, that he was the legal owner, and entitled to the possession, as a tenant in common, of the interest of four of the seven children of the late Abraham Wendell, of Mackinac Island, in certain real estate on said island called the “ Wendell Homestead,” and being lot 12 in the village of Mackinac, and which said…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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