Records of the 16th Circuit Court for Macomb County, 1818-1856.

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Records of the 16th Circuit Court for Macomb County, 1818-1856.

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This record group consists of the records of the 16th Circuit Court for Macomb County dating 1818-1856. The records of the group have come from three divisions of the Circuit Court: Criminal, Chancery, and Law. Criminal proceedings involve government prosecutions for violations of the state's criminal statutes. The criminal records in this group date from 1818-1856. Chancery cases involve disputes for which a strict interpretation of statutes or common law provides no plain, adequate, and complete remedy. In these civil cases, the court decides on the basis of conscience and equity. The chancery records in this group date from 1833, and 1847-1856 and include cases on divorce, land disputes, wills, and guardianship. Law cases include all civil actions based on statutory or common law, and usually concerns litigation between two or more parties. Most such matters involve disputes over land, personal property, debt, and breach of contract. The law case file dates from 1917-1919 and includes Case #8070, Henry Ford vs. the Tribune Co., et al., a libel suit filed by Ford against the Tribune Company for an editorial it printed calling Ford an anarchist.

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State Archive of Michigan

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State Archive of Michigan

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Tribune Company

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Michigan. Circuit Court (16th Circuit)

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...