Whitney v. Powell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Chcuit Court for Sheboygan County. This was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error, for the recovery of the possesion of lot number one hundred and eleven, in Ellis’ addition to tbe village of Sheboygan, and was tried at the September term of the Sheboygan circuit court, in 1848. The plaintiff in error, to maintain the issue on Ms part, showed title in Mmself, under a grant from the United States, by a deed…
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ERROR to the Chcuit Court for Sheboygan County. This was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error, for the recovery of the possesion of lot number one hundred and eleven, in Ellis’ addition to tbe village of Sheboygan, and was tried at the September term of the Sheboygan circuit court, in 1848. The plaintiff in error, to maintain the issue on Ms part, showed title in Mmself, under a grant from the United States, by a deed executed to Mm by one Ellis, bearing date on the 8th day of June, in the year 1846, and wMch was recorded on the 10th day of…
1Opinion of the CourtWi-nTON, J.
The only question arising in this case is, whether the instructions given by the judge to the jury were correct.
The action was ejectment, and the bill of exceptions shows that the plaintiff, to establish his title to the land, showed a patent from the United States to Albert G. Ellis, and a deed from Ellis to him; the deed was executed on the 8th day of June, 1846, and recorded on the 10th day of December, in the same year.
The defendant showed that he took possession of the land, claiming title, on the 1st day of December, 1844, and that *118he continued in possession, actual and peaceable, from…
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