Sydnor v. Palmer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La-Fayette County, Action by plaintiffs, claiming title in fee to the undivided-one-sixth part of certain mineral lands,, to recover possession thereof from the defendants, who unlawfully withhold the same.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La-Fayette County, Action by plaintiffs, claiming title in fee to the undivided-one-sixth part of certain mineral lands,, to recover possession thereof from the defendants, who unlawfully withhold the same. The action was commenced in January, 1867, and. was originally brought against Palmer, alone, but the Phoenix Lead Mining and Smelting Co.,, under whom Palmer held as tenant, was subsequently admitted as a party defendant on its own application. The amended complaint, filed in December, 1868, alleged the title and right of possession of the plaintiffs,…
1Opinion of the CourtDixoN, C. J.
Tbe depositions of tbe witnesses examined abroad were all admissible. Tbe objections to those of tbe Virginia witnesses were, that, though they showed tbe witnesses were sworn, they did not show they were sworn to speak the truth, and tbe certificates did not state that tbe depositions were read to or by tbe witnesses, or that they knew tbe contents of' them. Eule 61, Circuit Court Eules of 1849, prescribes tbe mode of taking such depositions, or of executing tbe commission issued for that purpose, and seems to have been strictly and fully complied with. Tbe language of tbe rule in these…
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