Michigan Supreme Court June 10, 1885 (Sherwood v. Landon)

Champlin, J.

On the 27th day of July, 1871, the plaintiff commenced suit in the circuit court for the county of Berrien by filing a declaration in a plea of trespass on the case upon promises as follows :

“ Eor that the defendants, to wit, on the sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, to wit, at our said county of Berrien, by their deeds of that date duly executed,