Dekowski v. Stachura
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oconto county. W. B. Quinlan, Circuit Judge. Specific performance. Plaintiff is a. business woman, operating a hotel at Pulaski, Wisconsin, and engaged in buying and selling real estate.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oconto county. W. B. Quinlan, Circuit Judge. Specific performance. Plaintiff is a. business woman, operating a hotel at Pulaski, Wisconsin, and engaged in buying and selling real estate. The defendants are Polish people, who1 are unable to write and speak the English language understandingly, and were the owners of a certain flat building in the city of Chicago worth $5,000 and incumbered for $2,300. The defendants were desirous of exchanging their Chicago property for a farm and solicited the aid of one Sebastian Passouicz, who was unable to…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 13, 1921:
RoseNberry, J.
The defendants, upon the trial, relied upon fraud as a defense to the action, claiming that they were unskilled in business ways, particularly in the matter of contracts; that the amount of tillable land was misrepresented; that the plaintiff represenfed, contrary to the fact, that she had received a. cash offer of $9,600 for the premises. The trial court said:
“The issues in the case utterly fail to show any fraud or advantage perpetrated on the part of the plaintiff in securing the contract whatever. The defendants are people of…
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