Case ID: mich-np-r_1/html/lxxxi-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Campbell, J", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Reeder vs. Crane.
    Error to Wayne Circuit.
   Opinion by

Campbell, J

This was an action of ejectment, brought by Crane to recover the Reeder farm, so-called, in Springwells, Wayne county. The farm formerly belonged to one John Harvey, who is claimed to have been an alien, and that he left no heirs except one Mary Yorke Harvey, who married Edwin Reeder, the ancestor of the plaintiffs in error, and has since deceased. After the death of his wife, Edwin Reeder took possession of said farm, and continued in possession until his death, since which time the plaintiifs in error have been in possession. The defendant in error claims that the property in question escheated .upon the death of Johtqllarvey, from the inability of his daughter to inherit, by reason of his being an alien; that if his daughter did inheritt, then the property es-cheated upon her death. Crane purchased the premises from the State Board of Escheats of this State.

Held, that if John Harvey was an alien, the property es-cheated ; that the escheat inured.to the State of Michigan, and the title passed to the State; that “ office found*’ was not neces sary to create an escheat, and that the title of the State wa not inchoate for want of “office found,” hut was subject to grant by the State, without first requiring an entry, and that the grant by the Board of .Escheats was sufficient to convey the title of the State to the plaintiff.

Judgment below reversed, and a new trial ordered.