Lee v. Meeker
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO THE RACINE COUNTY COURT. This was an action of trespass, brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error.
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ERROR TO THE RACINE COUNTY COURT. This was an action of trespass, brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error. The declaration contained three counts, alleging that a certain messuage and premises, with the appurtenances, situated in the town of Yorkville, in the county of Eacine and State of Wisconsin, were in possession and occupation of one John Hadley, as tenant of the plaintiff' the reversion thereof then and still belonging to the plaintiff; yet the said defendants, well knowing the premises, but contriving &c. to injure &e. the said plaintiff in her reversionary…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Crawford, J.
Without pointng out the instances in which improper and irrelevant testimony was permitted to be given on the trial of this cause in the County Court, we must reverse the judgment because competent and material evidence on the part of the present plaintiffs in error was erroneously excluded on the trial below.
•The injury complained of consisted in the partial removal of a building situate upon the lands of the ¡defendant in error, which lands, at the time of the alleged injury, were in the possession of John Hadley either as lessee and tenant under Miss Meeker (the…
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- State v. MoonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1877