Tellett v. Albregtson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Buffalo county: W. B. Quinlan, Judge. Ejectment for forty acres of farm land. The defendant claimed title by adverse possession under both the ten- and twenty-year statutes, and also claimed (in case of defeat on the question of title) to be entitled to a lien on the premises for a mortgage of $400 wbicb be bad paid tbereon, as well as for taxes and improvements. Tbe facts were not very seriously in dispute.
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Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Buffalo county: W. B. Quinlan, Judge. Ejectment for forty acres of farm land. The defendant claimed title by adverse possession under both the ten- and twenty-year statutes, and also claimed (in case of defeat on the question of title) to be entitled to a lien on the premises for a mortgage of $400 wbicb be bad paid tbereon, as well as for taxes and improvements. Tbe facts were not very seriously in dispute. Prior to March, 1885, Ole Albregtson (defendant’s father) owned the land and at that time deeded it to Annie Nelson, his daughter, a…
1Opinion of the Court
Winslow, O. J.
Appeals can only be taken from judgments or orders. Findings of fact and conclusions of law are neither; hence in the present case there is no appeal here except the appeal from that part of the judgment which fixes the amount recovered by the defendant and made a lien on the premises and fixing the time within which the same must be paid or the plaintiff barred of his right. Neither plaintiff nor defendant has appealed from those parts of the judgment which determine that the defendant has acquired Ole Nelson’s life estate therein by adverse possession and that the plaintiff…
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