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1 Mich. N.P. 53

Harrison v. Shotwells

Circuit Court of the 36th Circuit of Michigan · decided 1869-10-15

Action in ejectment. In 1839, Thomas. B. Millard received from the United Stales, a patent for the N. E. 1-4- of the N. E. 1-4 of Sec. 35, T. 2 S., R. 14 W., in Van Burén County. In 1837, two years before the date of the patent, Millard executed a warranty deed for the same, including in the conveyance lands in 'Barry County, to H. N. Monroe. The deed was, soon after its execution, recorded in Barry County; but was not recorded in Van Burén County, until 1867.

Decided 1869-10-15

. Bkown, J.,

¶1Instructed the jury, in relatiou to the question involved in this request, in substance, that if they should find that David Crittenden was dead, as claimed by the plaintiff, and that George F. Crittenden, plaintiff’s grantor, was his legitimate and only child, and surviving heir at law, the plaintiff had made out a prima facie case; and that in order to defeat his title, the delendant, claiming in opposition to the prior unrecorded deed, under a subsequent deed from the same grantor, must show affirmatively, priority of record, want of notice of such unrecorded deed, and the payment of a valuable consideration.

¶2*55.The recitals in a deed, of the payment of a valuable consideration, are evidence as between parties and privies to the deedi but not as between strangers, in such a case as this, where it is necessary that the defendant should show the payment of a valuable .consideration for the deed claiming priority of record. Such recitals are to be considered as mere admissions, and are not to be received as evidence against those who are not privies to the instrument containing them.

¶3Verdict lor plaint iff.

¶4A bill of exceptions has been settled, in this case.

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