Miranovitz v. Gee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Wood county: Byeoit B. Pase, Circuit Judge. Action by vendees to rescind contract for tbe purchase of certain real estate and personal property. Plaintiffs are Russian Jews, one being thirty and tbe other twenty-five years of age.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Wood county: Byeoit B. Pase, Circuit Judge. Action by vendees to rescind contract for tbe purchase of certain real estate and personal property. Plaintiffs are Russian Jews, one being thirty and tbe other twenty-five years of age. They came to this country about four years ago, and on June 21, 1914, purchased certain lands and personal property of the defendants for $3,500, paid $800 down, and gave a chattel mortgage for $600 on the personal property and a mortgage for $2,100 on the real estate. Plaintiffs went into possession of the property,…
1Opinion of the CourtRoseNberry, J.
The defendants attack the findings on the ground that they are contrary to the great preponderance •of the evidence. Briefly stated, the findings so far as material are as follows: Plaintiffs were uneducated and ignorant and able to speak the English language very imper*249fectly; were entirely ignorant of farm-land values, the care or value of stock or machinery, or the measure of land, and of every other matter connected with farming or farm life, and prior to the day on which the transaction was concluded had never been in Wood county, where the land was situated, and knew nothing about lands…
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