Ricketson v. Galligan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. II. Johuson, Circuit Judge. This is an action of ejectment, commenced September 2, 1892. Tbe complaint is in tbe statutory form. Tbe defense is a general denial, and twenty-six years’ adverse possession not founded upon any written instrument.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. II. Johuson, Circuit Judge. This is an action of ejectment, commenced September 2, 1892. Tbe complaint is in tbe statutory form. Tbe defense is a general denial, and twenty-six years’ adverse possession not founded upon any written instrument. On tbe trial tbe evidence of title on tbe part of tbe plaintiff consisted, among other things, of a patent dated March 3, 1813, from tbe United States to Joel S. "Wilcox, for lot 4, section 4, township 6 N., range 22 E., 53£ acres; a deed from Joel S. Wilcox and wife to Alfred B.…
1Opinion of the Court
Cassoday, -7.
It appears to be undisputed that in 1865-the Milwaukee & Chicago Railroad Company was in possession of the premises in question; that Prank Mangan, then in the employ of that company, asked the road master of that company to give him permission to build a house and make a garden thereon; that such permission was thereupon granted to Mangan; that Mangan thereupon constructed a-house thereon, and moved into it with his' family, and cultivated a garden; that after continuing to occupy the house for about three year's he sold the house to the defendant that he then moved out and…
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