Boon v. Root
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Columbia county: Chests® A. Eowlee, Circuit Judge. The complaint alleges the following facts: Lavina C. Curtis, a resident of the village of Bio, Wisconsin, was an aunt of the plaintiffs. On January 4, 1890, in expectation of death, she conveyed land, now known as lots 3 and 2 of block 1 in Dunlop’s third addition to the village of Bio, to her husband, Delos Curtis, for the term of his natural life.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Columbia county: Chests® A. Eowlee, Circuit Judge. The complaint alleges the following facts: Lavina C. Curtis, a resident of the village of Bio, Wisconsin, was an aunt of the plaintiffs. On January 4, 1890, in expectation of death, she conveyed land, now known as lots 3 and 2 of block 1 in Dunlop’s third addition to the village of Bio, to her husband, Delos Curtis, for the term of his natural life. After bis death the property was to go to the plaintiffs, who were then living with tbeir aunt, their mother having died in 1881. Lavina C. Curtis…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebeckeR., J.
The complaint alleges facts which plaintiffs claim constitute a cause of action against the defendants for fraud, accomplished by collusion with Delos Curtis, who was in possession of the premises as life tenant, and his wife, Loretta D. Curtis, residing with him, it being their purpose to secure a tax title to the premises in order to secure the title to this property and to deprive these plaintiffs of the in*455terest they bad in the land under the deed from their aunt. It is alleged that Delos Curtis was granted a life estate by such deed and that he was in actual possession of the premises,…
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