Lyon v. Waldo
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Ingham Circuit. as to the-claim that the bond and mortgage were void because executed-under duress, argued that it clearly appears from the evidence-that defendant was under a legal arrest, and was guilty of the-crime charged in the complaint, and that legal imprisonment by order of law is not duress by imprisonment: Bouvier Law Die., 513; 1 Bars, on Cont., 319; Bood v. Winslow, 2 Doug., 68; Beclc v. McAlpine, 3 Caines, 166; Watlcins v. Baird, 6…
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Appeal in Chancery from Ingham Circuit. as to the-claim that the bond and mortgage were void because executed-under duress, argued that it clearly appears from the evidence-that defendant was under a legal arrest, and was guilty of the-crime charged in the complaint, and that legal imprisonment by order of law is not duress by imprisonment: Bouvier Law Die., 513; 1 Bars, on Cont., 319; Bood v. Winslow, 2 Doug., 68; Beclc v. McAlpine, 3 Caines, 166; Watlcins v. Baird, 6 Mass,,. 506; 2 Kent Com., 452; Matter of William Wells, 18 Sow., 307; Walbridge v. Arnold, 21 Conn., 424. A deed executed…
1Opinion of the Court
Graves, J:
For some years before August 26, 1871, and thereafter until June 27, 1872, complainant was the wife of the defendant Jerome B= Waldo, and as husband and wife they lived together at Williamston, in Ingham county, up to the date first mentioned. At or just previous to that time she became satisfied that he was guilty of criminal intercourse with a woman living a few rods distant, and she hence withdrew from him at that date with the fixed purpose of not living or coliabiting with him longer, and which purpose she has kept; and with the further purpose of obtaining, as the bill states,…
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