McIntosh v. Marathon Land Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for- Marathon county: W. C. SilveRthobn, Circuit Judge. This is an action brought under sec. 3186, Stats. 1898, to quiet the title to several hundred acres of unoccupied land in Marathon county, Wisconsin.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for- Marathon county: W. C. SilveRthobn, Circuit Judge. This is an action brought under sec. 3186, Stats. 1898, to quiet the title to several hundred acres of unoccupied land in Marathon county, Wisconsin. The complaint alleges the plaintiff’s title to said lands, and that the defendant obtained and recorded a tax deed thereof in 1897, which is alleged to be void on account of errors and irregularities in the tax proceedings, and demands judgment vacating and canceling such deed. The answer denies the plaintiff’s title, and alleges the validity of…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNslow, J.
The defendant’s contentions were three in number: first, that the alleged will of Henry Walton was not sufficiently certified to show that it had ever been probated, and that neither it nor the deed of the alleged executrix was admissible in evidence, nor sufficient, if admissible, to convey any title; second, that the record of the deed of the N. E. J of the S. W. \ of section 19 was not admissible in evidence as a deed of any part of section 17, notwithstanding the appearance of the figure “7” immediately above the figure “9;” and, third, that the documentary evidence introduced as tending…
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