Myrick v. McMillan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Dane County. Tbis action was brought in tbe circuit court for La Crosse county, and tbe place of trial was changed to tbe county of Dane. On tbe trial, tbe plaintiff offered in evidence a deed from Peter Cameron for tbe land in controversy, wbicli was objected to, and excluded by tbe court, and tbe defendant bad judgment.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Dane County. Tbis action was brought in tbe circuit court for La Crosse county, and tbe place of trial was changed to tbe county of Dane. On tbe trial, tbe plaintiff offered in evidence a deed from Peter Cameron for tbe land in controversy, wbicli was objected to, and excluded by tbe court, and tbe defendant bad judgment. Tbe other facts of tbe case are stated in tbe opinion of tbe court. argued that tbe deed of Cameron, though not acknowledged by him, was sufficient to pass tbe legal title to tbe land, and was a good deed as against tbe grantor and all…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Oole, J.
The only question we have to consider in this case is, whether the circuit court properly excluded the deed given by Peter Oameron to Nathan My-rick. The deed was executed by Oameron on the the 28th of May, 1848, in the presence of two witnesses who signed the deed as such witnesses. But for some reason, it appears that the grantor did not then acknowledge the deed, and on the 20th day of September, 1851, the grantee proceeded to prove before a justice of the peace, by one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, the proper execution of the deed, in conformity to sections 16…
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