Meade v. Bros.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Outagamie- County. Ejectment, against Bavid Brothers and Amanda T. Brothers.. Complaint in tbe usual form. Tbe answer admits that defendants are in possession of tbe premises,' and denies tbe other averments of tbe complaint. Tbe nature of tbe conveyance under wbicb defendants claimed to bave derived title from tbe plaintiff, will sufficiently appear from tbe opinion.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Outagamie- County. Ejectment, against Bavid Brothers and Amanda T. Brothers.. Complaint in tbe usual form. Tbe answer admits that defendants are in possession of tbe premises,' and denies tbe other averments of tbe complaint. Tbe nature of tbe conveyance under wbicb defendants claimed to bave derived title from tbe plaintiff, will sufficiently appear from tbe opinion. Tbe plaintiff appealed from a judgment in favor of tbe defendants. argued tbat plaintiff could not maintain a suit in equity to remove a cloud upon bis title created by sucb deed: first, because…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
Eorj/the purpose of defeating a recovery in this case, tbe defendants introduced in evidence and relied upon tbe deed executed in tbe name of tbe plaintiff by bis attorney in fact, George W. Lawe, to tbe defendant Amanda T. Brothers, This deed was executed by Lawe to bis daughter Amanda, by virture of a power of attorney under seal, in and by wbicb tbe plaintiff constituted Lawe bis attorney, and authorized him, in bis name, “to bargain, sell, grant, release and convey entire or in separate and convenient parcels,” “for such sum or sums of money ” as to tbe attorney should seem most to tbe…
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