Wallber v. Wilmanns
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: WaRBEN D. TabraNt, Circuit Judge. On September 13, 1878, tbe defendant James S. White was duly appointed executor of tbe estate of Mary Ann White, and on tbe same day duly qualified as such by accepting said trust and filing a bond in tbe usual form, signed by Frederick Wilmanns and F. S. Blodgett as sureties, in tbe sum of $20,000. Said bond was duly approved, and letters testamentary were duly issued.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: WaRBEN D. TabraNt, Circuit Judge. On September 13, 1878, tbe defendant James S. White was duly appointed executor of tbe estate of Mary Ann White, and on tbe same day duly qualified as such by accepting said trust and filing a bond in tbe usual form, signed by Frederick Wilmanns and F. S. Blodgett as sureties, in tbe sum of $20,000. Said bond was duly approved, and letters testamentary were duly issued. White thereafter entered upon tbe discharge of bis duties, and took possession of all tbe property of deceased, and converted…
1Opinion of the CourtBaedeeN, J.
1. Many questions are raised on this appeal, the chief of which is whether the county court of Milwaukee ■county had the right or jurisdiction to appoint Mr. D. L. Jones as trustee. We have been greatly aided in a solution of this question by the written opinion of the trial judge found in the record, but not printed, as it ought to have been. It requires little more than a statement of the facts to show that the defendant’s contention is without foundation. Much of -defendant’s argument is based upon false assumptions of what the record discloses. It appears that from 1884 to 1896 White,-…
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