Bradley v. Silsbee

Campbell, J:

Defendant in error brought ejectment, and to maintain his title introduced in evidence a paper purporting- to be a certified copy of a record in the office of the secretary of state of the state of Michigan, of a patent from said state to one Delway Jones, dated March 25, 1869. The certificate of the secretary of state, under the great seal, certified it to be a true transcript of the whole of the original record of patent No. 19,950 in his office.

Objection was made that there is no law providing for the recording of patents in that office, and that no founda*329tion was laid for…