Sheldon v. Sheldon
Wisconsin Supreme Court
The bill, answers, and proofs in this case were quite volumnious, but for all the purposes of the report of ' the case it will be sufficient to state a brief abstract.
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The bill, answers, and proofs in this case were quite volumnious, but for all the purposes of the report of ' the case it will be sufficient to state a brief abstract. The bill was filed in the Milwaukee Circuit Court at the May term, A. D. 1851, and states that in June, 1836,/me Benjamin Sheldbn, since deceased, informed the complainant that he was about to proceed to the West to invest some money in lands, and[requested the complainant to advance some money to be invested with his ; that accordingly the complainant advanced to the said Benjamin the sum of 1745, to be invested in the name of…
1Opinion of the Court
Jhj tlie Court,
Wnrrov O. J.
There can be no doubt that the facts stated in the bili and admitted in the answers, or proved I / tlie testimony,-¡how tliat Benjamin Sheldon was th- (-raster of che complainant in respect to .the land in dispute,- and that consequently the title wont to hh heirs subject to the trust. ■ Admitting that the substitution, of Benjamin K. as the agent to select and purchase the lands, would have entitled the complainant to refuse the land and recover the ’money, there is Sufficient evidence of a ratification of the acts of the former by the latter' to bind all the…
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