Landon v. Burke
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant Oounty. Action to foreclose the interest of the defendants in real estate, Held under a land contract.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant Oounty. Action to foreclose the interest of the defendants in real estate, Held under a land contract. The complaint states that on or about the 24th day of February, 1870, one G-eorge Ey-land was the owner in fee simple of certain lands therein described ; that on that day he entered into a contract in writing (which is inserted in the complaint), for the sale to the defendant Ann M Burhe of the lands aforesaid; that she has failed to make a certain payment tbereon according to the 'terms of such contract; and that Ryland has duly conveyed and assigned…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
I. The first question which demands our attention is, whether the judgment was lawfully rendered at a term of the circuit court for La Fayette county ; for if it was not, it is a nullity, and the court should have expunged it from the records whenever its attention was called to the fact.
Ch. 243, Laws of 1862, sec. 1 (Tay. Stats., 1703, § 10), as amended by the Laws of 1872, ch.-13, provides as follows: “ All actions hereafter commenced in any court of this state, for the foreclosure or satisfaction of a mortgage upon real estate, shall be commenced, tried and determined in the county where…
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