Weber v. Weber

HEFFERNAN, CHIEF JUSTICE.

This is a review of a decision of the court of appeals, 169 Wis. 2d 538, 485 N.W.2d 447 (Ct. App. 1992), affirming a decision of the circuit court, James M. Mason, Judge, which denied the defendants' motion for relief from a Judgment of Foreclosure under sec. 806.07(l)(d), Stats. The defendants, Ruth and Jerold Weber, argued that Ruth's failure to sign the mortgages and notes given by her husband, Jerold, to his parents, plaintiffs Eugene and Ann Weber, rendered the mortgages void under the homestead requirement of the statute of frauds, sec. 706.02(l)(f), Stats. The…