McPherson v. Featherstone
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Bock County. Ejectment to recover possession of eighty acres of land. Complaint in the usual form, demanding recovery of possession and damages for the withholding.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Bock County. Ejectment to recover possession of eighty acres of land. Complaint in the usual form, demanding recovery of possession and damages for the withholding. Answer: 1. A general denial. 2 and 3. That defendants, and those under whom they claim, had been actually seized and possessed adversely to plaintiff for twenty years and upwards, prior to commence-' ment of action. 4. That in 1844, one Alexander McPherson purchased said premises of one Joseph Webb, paying the entire consideration therefor with his own money, but that a deed of the same was…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
In their brief, the counsel for the defendants do *639not seriously attempt to sustain the nonsuit on the ground that there was no proof given on the trial which tended to show that Joseph Webb signed the deed in question. One ground on which the motion for a nonsuit was founded, stated that there was no proof of the execution of the deed by Webb; but this objection, we presume, was based upon the alleged insufficiency of the certificate of the clerk of the court of common pleas of Jefferson county, New York, who certifies to the official character of the justice before whom the acknowledgment…
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