Havenor v. Pipher
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Green Lake county: George W. Bürhell, Circuit Judge. This is an action in equity to compel the defendants to convey to the plaintiff Havenor a certain lot and store building thereon in the city of Berlin, Wisconsin. The plaintiff claims as the only son and heir at law of one Mary J. Pipher, deceased.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Green Lake county: George W. Bürhell, Circuit Judge. This is an action in equity to compel the defendants to convey to the plaintiff Havenor a certain lot and store building thereon in the city of Berlin, Wisconsin. The plaintiff claims as the only son and heir at law of one Mary J. Pipher, deceased. The complaint alleges, in substance, that on the 25th of December, 1870, at Berlin, Mary J. Pipher (then Mary J. Havenor) was married to one Wilson Pipher, and remained his wife until December 18, 1897, when he died intestate; that at the time of…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNslow, J.
If the fact be, as found by the trial court, that John Pipher paid the entire purchase price of the real ■estate in question himself, it must necessarily follow that •the judgment below must be affirmed. Upon this point the testimony was necessarily quite meager on account of the death of both Wilson Pipher and his wife; but John Pipher testified directly that he paid the purchase price of the land, and there was very little, if any, competent testimony to the contrary, except as to one or two vague admissions said ■to' have been made by John Pipher in conversations many years since. When the…
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