Begg v. Anderson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wcmlcesha County. Ejectment. A sufficient statement of the pleadings, showing the questions involved, will be found in the report of a former appeal in 56 "Wis. 5M.' The defendant Ann Adel Anderson was formerly Ann Adel Begg, the widow of James Begg, Jr., deceased. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
The trial court submitted to the jury the question whether Jamies Begg, the father, or James Begg, the son, was the grantee in the special guardian’s deed dated January 6,1866, and thé jury in effect found that the son was the grantee. The learned counsel for the plaintiff insists that there is not a scintilla of proof to sustain that finding: therefore the circuit court should have granted the the motion to set aside the verdict on the ground that it was wholly unsupported by the evidence. If this position of counsel is sustained by the record, then surely the verdict should not stand. But…
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