Sprecker v. Wakeley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTS'. This was an action of ejectment commenced in the circuit court of Dane, by Wakeley & Tenney against Sprecker & Seckler, to recover the possession of a lot in Madison.
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ERROR TO CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTS'. This was an action of ejectment commenced in the circuit court of Dane, by Wakeley & Tenney against Sprecker & Seckler, to recover the possession of a lot in Madison. The plaintiffs claimed by deeds from the original patentees; and the defendants set up as a defence a deed made by the Territory of Wisconsin, dated 9th of April, 1847, to G. P. Del-aplaine, for the taxes of 1844, and recorded the same day; and by deeds from Delaplaine to the defendants; also possession of the defendants under the deeds since 1851. The circuit court ruled out the tax deed,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
This was an action of ejectment commenced in the circuit court of Dane county by the defendants in error, to recover the possession of a certain lot in the city of Madison. After the plaintiffs below had closed the case on their part,, the defendants below, and plaintiffs in error, offered in evidence a tax deed from the Territory of Wisconsin, to George P. Delaplaine, bearing date on the 9th day of April, 1847, and recorded on that day, which deed was objected to and ruled out by the circuit court, and an exception duly taken.
The correctness of this ruling of the circuit…
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