Grant v. Fletcher

TUTTLE, District Judge.

This is a case of unusual interest and importance. It involves business transactions originating more than 60 years ago, and the matters in controversy have been in litigation in the courts of Massachusetts and Michigan and the federal courts for nearly 50 years. All the original parties are now dead, and it has been necessary to establish the essential facts almost wholly from documentary evidence. The original litigation, commenced in the Massachusetts courts in 1874, ended with the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in May, 1908 (210 U. S. 82, 28 Sup. Ct.…