McLane v. Bovee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Calumet County. This action was commenced May 15, 1871, to recover lot 124 of the Stockbridge Reservation in the county of Calumet. The complaint is in the usual form.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Calumet County. This action was commenced May 15, 1871, to recover lot 124 of the Stockbridge Reservation in the county of Calumet. The complaint is in the usual form. The answer consists of, first, a general' denial; and secondly, allegations to the effect that at the June term, 1868, of the circuit court for Calumet county, in an action wherein Frederick Bovee, one of the defendants herein, was plaintiff, and the plaintiff herein, Thomas McLane, was defendant, the said Frederick Bovee recovered against McLane a, judgment for said lands, which judgment was…
1Opinion of the CourtEton, J.
The exemplifications of the records of the general land office, which were admitted as evidence, are sufficient under the act of congress on that subject, which provides that such copies, under the signature of the commissioner and the seal of such office, “ shall be competent evidence in all cases in which the original records, books or papers could be evidence.” Laws of 1812, ch. 68 (2 U. S. Stats, at Large, 716). The authority of congress to prescribe the manner in which government records shall be exemplified or authenticated, will not be doubted. We think the copies were properly…
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