Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. McKinney

OPINION OF THE COURT. This is a motion to set aside the verdict of the jury on several points made at the trial, some of which were reserved. The action was an ejectment, to recover the possession of eighty acres of land in the state of Michigan. A patent for the land was issued the 5th of .Tune, 1837, to Daniel Hudson. A quit claim deed was executed by Hudson to Samuel T. Gaines for the land, the 25th of September, 1836. which was acknowledged the 31st of December, 1852. And on the 28th of September, 1836, Hudson, by his attorney in fact .T. Wright Gordon, conveyed the tract of land to…