Hatch v. Lusignan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Bock county: 33. F. DuNwiddie, Circuit Judge. An action to quiet title, brought by the plaintiffs as children and heirs at law of Mary Hatch, deceased.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Bock county: 33. F. DuNwiddie, Circuit Judge. An action to quiet title, brought by the plaintiffs as children and heirs at law of Mary Hatch, deceased. The complaint bases their title upon a warranty deed from Henry Stonall to Mary Hatch, dated June 10, 1863, and continuous adverse possession thereof by Mary Hatch up to the time of her death, in 1887, and thereafter by her husband in the right of curtesy, and these plaintiffs as heirs at law, under an order of the county court settling their heirship. It is asserted that the defendants, as heirs…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
Tbe right of tbe plaintiffs to tbe land in question, as owners, rests upon tbe application of tbe rules of law prescribed by secs. 4211, 4212, 4215, Stats. 1898, to the facts found by tbe court — that they and their predecessors in title have held adverse possession thereof for more than ten years, having entered under claim of title founded upon written instruments, as being conveyances of tbe premises in question. If such facts existed, those statutes serve to vest in the plaintiffs complete legal title, although in form they only bar any suit to question such title. Nelson v. Jacobs, 99…
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