Watkins v. Brant
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Action to set aside a deed of sixty acres of land from Juliette Watkins, one of the plaintiffs, to the defendant Mary A. Brant. The land conveyed was a part of eighty acres which descended equally to Mary A. Brant and Juliette Watkins upon the death of their father, John C. Erant, intestate. The essential facts of the case will appear from the opinion. Defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the Court
RyAN, O. J.
The intestate left a widow and two daughters, *421both adults; one single and one married; tbe former tbe appellant bere, and the latter one of tbe respondents.
In his lifetime he bad been seized of one hundred and twenty acres of land in one body, of considerable value. But some years before bis death be conveyed forty acres of it to bis married daughter; and died seized of tbe remainder. ITis daughter entered into possession of what was conveyed to her, and her husband, tbe other respondent, made valuable improvements upon it.
Upon tbe death of tbe intestate, bis daughter’s husband…
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