Dudley v. Dudley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Bane County. The facts are stated in the opinion. The defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. They contended, inter alia, that the homestead estate which descended to defendant was a freehold estate which gave her seizin. -1 Kent’s Comm. 26; 1 Washb.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Bane County. The facts are stated in the opinion. The defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. They contended, inter alia, that the homestead estate which descended to defendant was a freehold estate which gave her seizin. -1 Kent’s Comm. 26; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 87, 88, and note 5; Coke, Litt. 42 contended, inter alia, that the necessary effect of this secret transaction, if the deed were valid, would be to defeat the plaintiff’s marital rights and just expectations as the wife of Charles L. Dudley. The logical inference of fact from the…
1Opinion of the CourtORton, J.
The facts of this case are substantially as follows: William II. Dudley died on the 2d day of July, 1879, seized of lots 7 and 8, and the east twenty-five feet of lots 6 and 9, in block 7, in the city of Madison. On lot 8 and the east twenty-live feet of lot 9 there was a dwelling-house, where he lived and died. He left also a personal estate which, after the payment of all debts and expenses, amounted to the sum of over $26,000, one half of which was assigned to the defendant as his widow, and the other half to his son, Charles L. Dudley, on the 12th day of February, 1880, the whole of which…
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