Erickson v. Michigan Land & Iron Co.

This is an action of ejectment, claiming in the declaration the northwest quarter of section 25, town 48 north of range 31 west, except a strip 80 rods by 14 in the northeast corner. All parties claim through the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad Company, the original grantee from the government. The plaintiffs are grantees subject to certain reservations of minerals, etc., and rights connected with their working and removal, and defendants among them own such rights as were reserved, — the Land & Iron Company as proprietors and the other defendants as licensees and lessees. The main…