Noonan v. Orton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM THE CIROUIT COURT OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY. On tbe 19th day of January, 1855, the complainants filed their bill of complaint against the-defendant, to which said bill on the 22d day of February, 1855, an amendment was filed. On the 20th day of April the defendant filed his demurrer to the amended bill of complaint, which demurrer, after argument by counsel for the parties, was overruled by the Circuit Court.
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APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM THE CIROUIT COURT OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY. On tbe 19th day of January, 1855, the complainants filed their bill of complaint against the-defendant, to which said bill on the 22d day of February, 1855, an amendment was filed. On the 20th day of April the defendant filed his demurrer to the amended bill of complaint, which demurrer, after argument by counsel for the parties, was overruled by the Circuit Court. This appeal is taken by the defendant from the order overruling the demurrer.
1Opinion of the Court
The facts involved in this case-are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
By the Court,
Whiton, C. J.
The bill filed in this case as it was amended, states in substance, that Erastus B. Wolcott, Talbot C. Dousman, Zelotus A. Cotton and Sandford D. Cotton, were seized in fee of certain lands, and being so seized in the year 1850, entered into an agreement with McNab, one of the *336complainants, and one John E. Cajneron, since deceased, by which agreement Wolcott, Dousman and the Cottons agreed to sell to McNab and Cameron, certain portions of the land above mentioned, and also to lease to…
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