Johnson v. Warren

This suit was brought to quiet title to land under a will, which defendant is charged with claiming, but which he has taken no steps to recover. The whole contest is over the construction of a devise. In May, 1854, Horace Johnson, being an unmarried man past middle life, residing in the township of Locke, Ingham county, Mich., and owning real and personal property in that township, and in the adjacent township, made his will, and died shortly afterwards. He left surviving him a mother advanced in years, a sister, Lucinda, unmarried and 50 years old and upwards, two brothers, a married sister,…