Gratz v. Land & River Imp. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. Fractional section 16 in township 49 north, of range 34 west, in the county of Douglas and state of Wisconsin, is bounded on the north and west by the St. Louis river and St. Louis Bay.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. Fractional section 16 in township 49 north, of range 34 west, in the county of Douglas and state of Wisconsin, is bounded on the north and west by the St. Louis river and St. Louis Bay. The sed ion was surveyed by the government of the United States in the year 1854, and according to that survey and the plat . thereof returned to the general land office of the United States, and filed in the office of the surveyor general, the section contained 522.80 acres of land, as follows: The northeast fractional…
1Opinion of the Court
JENKINS, Circuit Judge.
It is urged that the court should not consider the record of the unacknowledged agreements of the parties to this title. It is enacted by chapter 288 of the Laws of Wisconsin for the year 1891 that all agreements relating to sales and conveyances of land, or of any interest therein, which have not been acknowledged, but which shall have been recorded in the proper register’s office for 20 years, may be proved and admitted in evidence, by the production of the record or a duly-certified copy, with the same effect as if such instrument had been properly acknowledged. The…
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