Parker v. Kane
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM HU'WAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. (1) The appellant filed his bill in the Milwaukee Circuit Court, in equity, January 10, 1851, against Charles I. Kane, James S. Brown, John H. Tweedy, Peter Martineau, and George Dunbar, Mary A. Dunbar and Caroline E. Dunbar, infant heirs of William E. Dunbar, deceased, Bela Shaw and Rebecca Shaw, his wife, Carl Becman and Richard Montague, setting forth in said bill, in substance, that in the year 1885, said Montague made an…
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APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM HU'WAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. (1) The appellant filed his bill in the Milwaukee Circuit Court, in equity, January 10, 1851, against Charles I. Kane, James S. Brown, John H. Tweedy, Peter Martineau, and George Dunbar, Mary A. Dunbar and Caroline E. Dunbar, infant heirs of William E. Dunbar, deceased, Bela Shaw and Rebecca Shaw, his wife, Carl Becman and Richard Montague, setting forth in said bill, in substance, that in the year 1885, said Montague made an agreement with Wm. E. Dunbar, since deceased, by which Montague agreed with Dunbar to furnish him money to purchase all of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Crawford, J.
The disposition of this case demands that we shall discuss only a few of tbe points made and insisted upon by counsel in tbe argument.
The first question to be noticed, has reference to tbe original transaction between Dunbar and Montague. Tbe former executed and delivered to tbe latter a deed of conveyance of tha undivided one-half of certain lands, now embraced in the limits of the city of Milwaukee; and after the making of this deed, Dunbar purchased from Montague an undivided one-half of the interest in the lands which be had previously conveyed to Montague. The…
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