Willard v. Reas
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action by A. C. Willard and his wife Albina M. Willard against Hannah Reas and Charles E. Bingham.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action by A. C. Willard and his wife Albina M. Willard against Hannah Reas and Charles E. Bingham. The complaint demanded judgment: 1. That A. C. Willard recover of Mrs. Reas $1,500, with interest, being the value of a certain land contract which Mrs. Willard had assigned to Mrs. Reas in payment for certain lands conveyed by Mrs. Reas to A. C. Willard by warranty deed, to which lands, it is alleged, Mrs. Reas had no title. 2. That Bingham be directed to assign to the sheriff of Winnebago county (or such person as the court should direct),…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The chief object of this suit doubtless is, to enforce a vendor’s lien against the land embraced in the contract executed by one Drew to Mrs. Willard. This contract was sold and assigned to Mrs. Reas, in consideration of and in payment for eighty acres of land in Missouri, which Mrs. Reas conveyed to the plaintiff A. C. Willard by a deed with covenants of warranty. It is alleged in the complaint, that at the time the contract was assigned to Mrs. Reas, and this deed executed, she represented that she was the absolute owner in fee of the land conveyed by her, while in fact she was not the…
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