Crocker v. Bellangee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM THE MILWAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. This was a bill in equity to stay proceedings at law, in some eighty actions of ejectment commenced and prosecuted by the said Bellangee, against the said Crocker and others.
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APPEAL PROM THE MILWAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. This was a bill in equity to stay proceedings at law, in some eighty actions of ejectment commenced and prosecuted by the said Bellangee, against the said Crocker and others. The bill set forth that on the 4th day of July, A. H. 1854, Edward W. Casey, then and still being a resident of New Bed-ford, in the state of Massachusetts, was the owner in fee simple of all the following real estate, to-wit: the undivided sixteenth part of the southeast quarter of section number nineteen, in township number seven, north of range number twenty-two east, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the \ Gow%
Whitok, C. J.
One of the principal questions presented in this case, is, whether the complainant (Crocker) is in a situation to avail himself of the alleged fraud of Bellangee, upon Casey.
Admitting that Bellangee practised a fraud upon Casey which would have enabled the latter to set aside the deed, does the subsequent conveyance by Casey to Crocker enable him to avail himself of the same fraud ?
It is contended by the counsel for Crocker that the deed from Casey to Bellangee having been obtained by fraud and imposition, is void for all purposes, and that consequently no title…
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