Crawford v. Moore

The bill is filed to compel the conveyance to the complainants, the widow and minor children of John Monroe, deceased, of the one undivided sixth part of 160 acres of mineral lands situate in Ontonagon county, Michigan, and located and entered by the respondent Nathaniel 1). Moore, upon whose application the patent was issued from the state land-office at Lansing, in January, 1875, to James H. McDonald and John McKay, who furnished the purchase money under an arrangement or understanding that Moore was to have an undivided interest in consideration of his services in exploring the land, and…