National Bank v. Levanseler
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from St. Joseph; Yaple, J. Bill by the National Bank of Sturgis against Frank E. Levanseler and Helen B. Levanseler to foreclose a purchase-money mortgage. Defendants filed an answer in the nature of a cross-bill, asking a rescission of the contract of purchase, or, in lieu thereof, a specific performance of the same by complainant. From a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
Complainant, being the owner of a furniture manufactory in the village of Sturgis, negotiated a sale thereof to Frank E. Levanseler, one of the defendants. During the negotiation he professed to believe that the building did not stand wholly upon lots 6 and 7 of block 10, but extended 10 feet over and upon other lands adjoining, known in this record as the right of way of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and from the record we should perhaps find such to be the fact. An agreement was reached, and at a meeting of the complainant’s board of directors, at which Frank E. Levanseler was…
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