Scott v. Palms

This is an injunction bill. The complainant was widow of James J. Campan, and has had assigned to her as her dower the westerly half of the brick building known as Masonic Hall on Jefferson avenue in the city of Detroit. ' The defendant by purchase has become owner of the easterly half of the same building, and also of the westerly half subject to complainant’s life estate.

Masonic'Hall was erected by the Masonic order in the year 1851 on ground -of which a thirty years’ lease was taken, and on terms which affixed the building to the inlier*507itance. The structure is about thirty-eight feet front…