Hustis v. McWilliams
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Fond du Lac county: Chester A. Fowler, Circuit Judge. The two plaintiffs, sisters, daughters and beneficiaries under the will of Laura A. Hustis, the wife of one John Hustis, also now deceased, have brought this action of ejectment to determine the question of the ownership of two pieces of land each twenty-five feet square in the village of Hustis-ford,;Dodge county.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Fond du Lac county: Chester A. Fowler, Circuit Judge. The two plaintiffs, sisters, daughters and beneficiaries under the will of Laura A. Hustis, the wife of one John Hustis, also now deceased, have brought this action of ejectment to determine the question of the ownership of two pieces of land each twenty-five feet square in the village of Hustis-ford,;Dodge county. These two pieces are portions of what was known as government lots 4 and 5, lot 4 being on the east side and lot 5 on the west side of Rock river, all in the north half of the…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The appellants in this case assert that there is no proper foundation in the evidence for certain of the findings of fact upon which the court reached its conclusions of law in favor of the defendants. The substance of the findings so attacked is as follows: That the plaintiffs knew at the time of their signing the so-called gravel-pit lease of the giving of the deed to the property in question by their father, John Hustis, to Dehne; that the plaintiffs knew at such time of the statement in the opinion of this court in the case of Koch v. Hustis, 113 Wis. 599, 87 N. W. 834, and quoted supra,…
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