Falk v. Devendorf
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Mil-( waukee county: E. T. Fairchild, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court affirming a judgment of unlawful detainer of the civil court of Milwaukee county.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Mil-( waukee county: E. T. Fairchild, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court affirming a judgment of unlawful detainer of the civil court of Milwaukee county. In August, 1918, the defendant orally leased the upper flat of a double-flat building, then owned by one Broecker, for $27 per month for a term of one year with the privilege on defendant’s part of extending his possession for two years more at the same rate. On September 14, 1918, defendant took possession of and did some electric wiring in the flat, the…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The defendant contends that under undisputed testimony that at the time of the making of the oral contract in August, 1918, it was further agreed between defendant and the then owner of the premises, acting through his wife as agent, that such contract would be put in writing at any time thereafter at defendant’s request, it then became a valid and binding contract as though reduced to writing and became equally binding and enforceable as against the plaintiff, who bought the real estate chargeable with notice of such right in the defendant then in possession. He also contends that in any…
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