Thompson v. Jones
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO WAUKESHA CIRCUIT COURT. This was an action of ejectment, commenced in tbe Waukesba Circuit Court, by tbe present defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error, to recover possession of a certain dwelling-house and lot, situate in the town of Waukesha. The land in controversy is described in the plaintiff’s declaration as a part of section three, town six north, of range nineteen east, and is set out by metes and bounds.
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ERROR TO WAUKESHA CIRCUIT COURT. This was an action of ejectment, commenced in tbe Waukesba Circuit Court, by tbe present defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error, to recover possession of a certain dwelling-house and lot, situate in the town of Waukesha. The land in controversy is described in the plaintiff’s declaration as a part of section three, town six north, of range nineteen east, and is set out by metes and bounds. Morris D. Cutler was tbe original paten-tee, from whom both parties claimed title. Since Cutler conveyed this land, it, together with adjacent lands, had been…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
This was an action of ejectment, brought by Jones against the plaintiff in error, to recover the possession of a certain lot in the village of Prairieville. To. make out his title, Jones in the court below offered in evidence a deed dated Nov. 7th, 1844, from Elijah Thompson and wife to him, in which the premises conveyed are described as follows:
“ All that certain piece or parcel of land, being a part of the northwest quarter of section three, of town six north, of range nineteen, east, described as follows: commencing at a point fifty *110feet westerly of the southwest…
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