Schriber v. LeClair
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday: “ This action is for the strict foreclosure of two land contracts set forth in the complaint, each of which recited a consideration of one dollar, and named the plaintiff as the party of the first part,’ and the defendant, Joseph LeClair, as ' party of the second part.’' “ The contract constituting the first cause of action is dated October 26, 1882, and is to the effect that the…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday: “ This action is for the strict foreclosure of two land contracts set forth in the complaint, each of which recited a consideration of one dollar, and named the plaintiff as the party of the first part,’ and the defendant, Joseph LeClair, as ' party of the second part.’' “ The contract constituting the first cause of action is dated October 26, 1882, and is to the effect that the plaintiff, on the payment to him, one year from the date thereof, of the sum of $2,849.33, and also the further sum of…
1Opinion of the Court
Cassoday; J.
There is some little discrepancy between the testimony of the plaintiff and the defendant, Joseph LeClair, as to just what was said between them a short time prior to *583the making of the first written contract, and which finally resulted in the making of that contract. The same is true as to the conversation preliminary to the second contract. There is, however, no material difference as to the substance of either of the transactions agreed upon. It is, .in effect, admitted that the defendant was, prior to the first conversation, a surveyor engaged in the business of a woodsman,…
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