Ferry v. Miller
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Calhoun; North, J. Bill by Sarah B. Ferry against Silas A. Miller, Horace L. Cronk, and Sarah A. Cronk to redeem from a deed given as security for a loan and to obtain other relief. From a decree dismissing complainant’s bill, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Calhoun; North, J. Bill by Sarah B. Ferry against Silas A. Miller, Horace L. Cronk, and Sarah A. Cronk to redeem from a deed given as security for a loan and to obtain other relief. From a decree dismissing complainant’s bill, complainant appeals. On November 9, 1907, Ida Mae Miller, wife of defendant Silas A. Miller, was confined in the Calhoun county jail in default of the payment of a fine of $200. On that day she was the owner of lots 93, 94, 95, and 96 of Highland Park addition to the city of Battle Creek. Those lots were subject to an incumbrance of $333.75 to the Port Huron…
1Opinion of the CourtBrooke, J.
(after stating the facts). The only question presented by this record is whether Mrs. Miller or her grantee owns the four lots she conveyed to the Cronks, subject to' their mortgage lien, or whether they belong, as held by the learned circuit judge, to her husband. It is not questioned upon this record that Mrs. Miller agreed with her husband that, if he would raise the amount of her fine and secure her release from jail, she would deed absolutely to him, or to any one for him, the four lots she owned. He testifies (and is not contradicted) that he took her deed directly to the Cronks,…
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