Tuxbury v. French
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne. Ejectment. George Young devised to his daughter,, Mary Tewksbury, wife of Sidney Tewksbury, the s. f of the s.
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Error to Wayne. Ejectment. George Young devised to his daughter,, Mary Tewksbury, wife of Sidney Tewksbury, the s. f of the s. J of the s. f of quarter section, lot number seventeen in the Ten Thousand acre tract in the township of Hamtramck, Wayne county, Michigan, containing fifteen acres of land and bounded westerly by the road running from Detroit to Pontiac, known as the Pontiac turnpike, being 15 rods wide on said turnpike, running back eastwardly of the same width 160 rods, and being the “same land on which said Sidney Tewksbury now lives;” and also a strip of land 6 feet wide lying…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
Mrs. Tuxbury sued French in ejectment, and the court sitting without a jury found against her, and she alleges error. Both parties claim under the will of her father, George' Young. Her right depends on a devise in her favor, and he claims under one in favor of her sister Elizabeth. The contention has grown out of conflicting constructions, and the main end sought by the writ of error is a final construction by this court. The case is at law, and no review can be had except according to the mode authorized in cases at law. The whole evidence was before the circuit judge for such conclusions-…
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