Lins v. Seefeld
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe county court of Waukesha ■county: M. S. Griswold, Judge. This is an action of ejectment for two strips of land hereinafter described.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe county court of Waukesha ■county: M. S. Griswold, Judge. This is an action of ejectment for two strips of land hereinafter described. Issue being joined and jury waived, the •cause was tried by the court, and the findings of the court are to the effect that one William J\ Kline became the owner of the eighty acres of land described in 1850; that Kline made and executed a plat of that part of said lands constituting' Kline’s addition to the village of Eagle Center, which plat was recorded in-the register’s office October 30, 1851. There was designated on that plat…
1Opinion of the Court
Cassoday, 0. J.
1. Two questions are presented for consideration. One is as to tbe ownership of the strip of land two rods wide mentioned in the foregoing statement. It is conceded that prior to October 31, 1851, all the lands' in question and other lands were owned by one William J. Kline,, who under oath made and executed a plat of the same which was duly recorded on the day and year last mentioned. Such execution under oath would seem to be equivalent to a formal acknowledgment as prescribed by sec. 5, ch. 41, R. S. 1849,, especially in view of the curative statute after twenty years*…
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