Thiel v. Jahns

In this case the question is as to the sufficiency of a memorandum relating to the sale of real estate. Plaintiff lives in the town of Berlin in Marathon county, near a small settlement called Little Chicago. Defendants, husband and wife, live in Milwaukee. Defendant, William A. Jahns, a carpenter, had built a house some years ago on land belonging to his father and located in Little Chicago, and when William moved to Milwaukee in 1926 his parents deeded to him a one-and-one-half-acre piece which included the site of the house. A fence incloses the house, garden, and some lawn but not the…