Hoffman v. Beard
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from St. Clair Circuit. The bill in this cause was filed by John M. Hoffman and Thomas S. Skinner in the Circuit Court for the County of St. Clair in Chancery, against John Beard, James Beard and William H. White, for a partition of premises, alleged in the bill to have been owned in the year 1825 by John Biddle, Oliver W. Miller, Robert Smart and Thomas Scott.
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Appeal in Chancery from St. Clair Circuit. The bill in this cause was filed by John M. Hoffman and Thomas S. Skinner in the Circuit Court for the County of St. Clair in Chancery, against John Beard, James Beard and William H. White, for a partition of premises, alleged in the bill to have been owned in the year 1825 by John Biddle, Oliver W. Miller, Robert Smart and Thomas Scott. The bill further alleges that two of the defendants, John and James Beard, claim to own three undivided fourths of of said premises; that the defendant White claims an interest therein; that Thomas Scott, the owner…
1Opinion of the CourtChristiancy, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the county of St. Clair in Chancery.
The bill is in form mainly a bill for the partition of certain lands in the county of St. Clair, of which complainants claim to own the undivided fourth. They set forth their title substantially as follows: In 1825 John Biddle, Oliver W. Miller, Robert Smart and Thomas Scott became owners in fee of the premises. Afterwards, by several conveyances, the title of all the parties, except Scott, came to be vested in the defendants. In 1851 Thomas Scott died intestate, not having conveyed his one-fourth,…
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