Matteson v. Vaughn

In this case suit was brought on the covenants of a warranty deed made by Vaughn to plaintiff June 13, 1853, of certain lands in Lapeer county, upon which, as it afterwards turned out, Vaughn had certain illegal tax-titles and nothing more. He had never been in possession, and Matteson never went into possession. The legal title had passed from the United States in 1838 to Eodney D. Hill; from Hill to Bostwick and Sterling in 1851; from Sterling and Bostwick’s administrator to Adam Van Allen in 1855; from Van Allen to Stephen Clark in April, 1858, and from Clark to Hamilton Littlefield in…