A Mistake In A Deed

Edward Duffy has been in Jackson this week attending a meeting of the state prison inspectors who are endeavoring to straighten out 'a bad buil made by the late Republican board in transferring a piece of the state property. In i8c)r Z. C. Jessups, a Detroit man who had sold lamber to the prison for some years, bought a piece of land adjoiningthe prison grounds of the board of inspectors for $10,000, paying $500 down, the balance of $9,500 to be paid after Jessup had had a year to experiment vvith the land as a stone quarry if it panned out. The deed made out includes a piece of land across the road f rom the stone quarry 10 rods in depth and 80 rods in length, which is part of the prison farm and is worth from 5,000 to S7, 000. It was never intended to convey this and possession of it was never delivered. Jessup sold out his contract to Avery, who was the clerk of the late Republican board of inspectors. Avery put the contract into a company which now claims all the land described. On searching the prison records the board found in Avery's handwriting cm the record of proceeding the proposition made for the land described by metes and bounds, naming the street as the boundary. The board will file a bilí to have the deed corrected so as to conform to the proposition and there is every prospect of this land being saved to the state.