Burdick v. Briggs
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM CIRCÜIT COURT, COLUMBIA COUNTY. This was an action commenced by Israel F. Burdick, against Harvey Briggs and Frances L. Briggs, to foreclose a mortgage.
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APPEAL PROM CIRCÜIT COURT, COLUMBIA COUNTY. This was an action commenced by Israel F. Burdick, against Harvey Briggs and Frances L. Briggs, to foreclose a mortgage. The complaint, filed January 2, 1858, set forth that the plaintiif was the owner of certain lands, in Columbia county, containing 180 acres, except 44 acres, which had been sold to one J. Ewing, by the former owner; that the plaintiff had bargained and paid for the other part of the land to one Parker Bowman, who before that time was the owner in fee of the land; that the plaintiff sold the land to the defendant, Frances L.…
1Opinion of the Court
*131 By the Court,
Paine, J.
This action was brought to foreclose a mortgage given to secure two notes, amounting to $1,336, on one of which there was an indorsement of $100. The notes and mortgage were given to secure the payment of the purchase money of the land, which was sold by the plaintiff to the defendant, Harvey Briggs, and conveyed at. his request, to his wife. For a part of the land the plaintiff had at the time of the sale, a contract for the conveyance, and he procured a deed to be made directly to Mrs. Briggs, and also gave her a quit claim of that part to which the title was in him.…
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