CHRISTOPHER RICHARDS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v JOSEPH TIBALDI and PATRICIA TIBALDI, Defendants-Appellees, and HAMILTON FARM BUREAU, Defendant., 272 Mich. App. 522

Summary

Both parties had quitclaim deeds to the land, plaintiff getting his from a company that he thought owned it and defendants getting theirs from the same grantor. However, before defendants received their deed, the title owner in fact quitclaimed it to the company. Meanwhile, plaintiff sued the company and the individual to quiet title (suit 1), filed a lis pendens, and won a default judgment against the company. Immediately thereafter, defendants filed their deed for record. Plaintiff then sued defendants to quiet title (suit 2), but defendants' motion for summary disposition was granted. Plaintiff appealed but the court affirmed. After ruling that defendants were not required to intervene in suit 1, it held that plaintiff acquired nothing upon delivery to him of the quitclaim because the company had no interest in the land at the time thereof; that plaintiff could not rely on the doctrine of after-acquired title as it did not apply where the conveyance was by quitclaim; that even if ...