Dougan v. H. J. Grell Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dodge county: Martin L. Lueck, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff’s predecessor in title of a farm about seven miles south of Beaver Dam, six miles from Columbus, in. a dairy community in Dodge county, on October 31, 1894, made a written agreement with Charles Christians and J. W. Puerner whereby there was leased to them for ninety-nine years at an annual rental of $5 about one half of an acre from the northwest corner of the farm.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dodge county: Martin L. Lueck, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff’s predecessor in title of a farm about seven miles south of Beaver Dam, six miles from Columbus, in. a dairy community in Dodge county, on October 31, 1894, made a written agreement with Charles Christians and J. W. Puerner whereby there was leased to them for ninety-nine years at an annual rental of $5 about one half of an acre from the northwest corner of the farm. Two copies of such lease were signed by the respective parties. Each copy contained the following: “said premises to be…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The appellant contends in effect that in determining the respective rights and liabilities of the parties, the two leases, the one for the factory premises and the other, made five years later, for the forty-foot strip on which the dwelling house was erected, should be construed as one document, and that whatever additional rights were given to the lessor by the language of the second lease over that contained in the first should be construed as though so contained in the first lease. In support of such view it is urged that the nature of the property included in the lease; the merely nominal…
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