Regents of the University v. Board of Education
Michigan Supreme Court
Case reserved from Wayne Circuit. This was an action of ejectment, brought by plaintiffs to recover lots 96, 97, and 98, of section 1 of the recorded sections of the City of Detroit, according to the Governor’s ■ and Judges’ plan of said sections.
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Case reserved from Wayne Circuit. This was an action of ejectment, brought by plaintiffs to recover lots 96, 97, and 98, of section 1 of the recorded sections of the City of Detroit, according to the Governor’s ■ and Judges’ plan of said sections. The plaintiffs claimed title to the premises in question, by virtue of a deed therefor executed by Lewis Cass, then Governor, and Solomon Sibley, and John Hunt, Judges of.the late Territory of Michigan, to the Trustees of the University of Michigan, their successors and assigns, to the use of the University of Michigan, bearing date the 9th day of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Green, J.
1. The power of the Governor and Judges to execute the-deed in question, is claimed to have been conferred by an Act of Congress, entitled, “An Act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land, in the town of Detroit, and Territory of Michigan, and for other purposesapproved April 21, 1806.
The first section of this Act authorizes the Governor and Judges of the Territory of Michigan, or any three of them, to lay out a town, including the whole of the old town of Detroit, and ten thousand acres adjacent, excepting such parts as the President of the United States should…
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