Fox v. Zimmermann
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Sheboygan County. Tbe action is ejectment to recover tbe possession of fifteen acres of land in or near tbe city of Sheboygan. Tbe complaint is in tbe usual form.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Sheboygan County. Tbe action is ejectment to recover tbe possession of fifteen acres of land in or near tbe city of Sheboygan. Tbe complaint is in tbe usual form. Tbe defendants Friederieh Znrrvmermcmn and Lutz answered jointly, denying tbe material allegations of tbe complaint; also that tbe defendant Ghrisbme Zimmermann is tbe owner of tbe land in controversy and entitled to tbe possession thereof; that tbe defendant Friederieh is her husband and in possession of tbe land as such; and that Lutz is in possession thereof as her tenant. The answer of Ghrisbme…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
¥e think the finding of the jury is supported by the testimony. Such finding and the admission, both of which are set out in the above statement of the case, establish the proposition that when the taxes accrued for each year from 1868 to 1879, inclusive, the defendant Fried-erich had in his hands the rents he collected to an amount sufficient to pay the taxes of such year. Of course he committed a gross fraud on the plaintiff when, in each of the years 1873, 1877, and 1878, he neglected to pay such taxes therewith, but allowed the land to be returned and sold and afterwards conveyed to his…
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