Perkins v. Owen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Milwaukee county: WaRREh D. TakRAht, Circuit Judge. This is an action in equity to remove a cloud from the title of two parcels of land in the city of Milwaukee. The plaintiff is the widow, and the defendant the mother, of one George B. Owen, who died January 21, 1890, leaving no heirs at law except his widow, the plaintiff.
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Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Milwaukee county: WaRREh D. TakRAht, Circuit Judge. This is an action in equity to remove a cloud from the title of two parcels of land in the city of Milwaukee. The plaintiff is the widow, and the defendant the mother, of one George B. Owen, who died January 21, 1890, leaving no heirs at law except his widow, the plaintiff. At his death he owned an undivided one-half of three parcels of land in Milwaukee, his brother David G. Owen owning the other half thereof. ITe also owned the whole of one other tract of land. These lands will be referred…
1Opinion of the Court
"Winslow, J.
After carefully reading the evidence, we find nothing to warrant a reversal of any of the findings of fact of the trial court. The facts, in brief, are these: Owen died owning four parcels of land, and leaving his widow as his sole heir at law. TIis widow and his mother both supposed that he left a will dividing the property between them, but,, being unable to find it, the widow finally administered the es-. tate as though it were intestate, and obtained a final order of the county court, upon due notice, assigning all of the reall estate, to her. Both widow and mother being still…
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