Each Gets An Injunction

EACH GETS AN INJUNCTION

Father vs. Son and Son vs. Father

A BITTER LEGAL FIGHT

Trouble Over Property Rights Has Brought Them Into Court

It is father against son and son against father in the Bishop case, now filed in the chancery side of the Washtenaw circuit court. Each has secured an injunction against the other and it will be a bitter fight.

William H. Bishop, a prominent farmer of Augusta township, leased his farm to his son, William S. Bishop, with the condition that the stock should be kept up as to quality and quantity at the standard of the time when the papers were made out. The father claims that the son was selling off the stock at a livery rate, so he procured an injunction restraining his son from disposing of any more livestock.

Now the son comes back at him with a counter claim in which he sets up that the father has only a life interest in the farm. Further, that he and his father had agreed to share equally in keeping up the insurance on the buildings on the place, and that they acted under this arrangement, but that the father came to him and maintained that the insurance company insisted that the policy run in name of the father. The dwelling house and contents burned last fall and here is where the difficulty probably started. The insurance company paid the father $1,100 and the son claims that he promised to put this money into replacing a home on the farm. He also sets up that his father has $925 of the insurance money in the bank and he asks the court to determine what his share of it is. In the meantime the father is restrained from molesting the $925 by an injunction.