Williams v. Field
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL, IÍÍ EQUITY FROM LAFAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. This was a bill for specific performance, to compel the defendant to convey to the complainants two certain mineral lots therein described, and for an account of the rents and profits thereof. The case was brought to a bearing at the March term of the Circuit Court of Lafayette county, 1852, and was argued by counsel.
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APPEAL, IÍÍ EQUITY FROM LAFAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. This was a bill for specific performance, to compel the defendant to convey to the complainants two certain mineral lots therein described, and for an account of the rents and profits thereof. The case was brought to a bearing at the March term of the Circuit Court of Lafayette county, 1852, and was argued by counsel. Whereupon the court made a decree in favor.of the said complainants, that the defendant, within six months from the filing of the decree, should execute and deliver to the complainants a deed of quitclaim or release of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Winxoif, O. J.
The decree in this case disposes of the matters in controversy between the parties, and should be regarded as a final decree, were it not that the question of costs is reserved by the court for further adjudication. "When this is done, the Court of Chancery, of the State of New York, has held that the decree is interlocutory, although it is in all other respects final in its nature. Dickinson and Wife vs. Codwise, 11 Paige R. 191; Williamson vs. Field, 2 Barb. Ch. R. 281. We are disposed to follow those decisions, as they were made under a statute regulating appeals…
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