Culbertson v. Coleman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Oconto County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe: “These appeals are taken in the same action, of ejectment for the recovery of three separate parcels of land. On the trial in the court below, the plaintiff obtained a verdict for one of the parcels described in his complaint, and the defendant had a verdict in his favor for the other parcels.
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APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Oconto County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe: “These appeals are taken in the same action, of ejectment for the recovery of three separate parcels of land. On the trial in the court below, the plaintiff obtained a verdict for one of the parcels described in his complaint, and the defendant had a verdict in his favor for the other parcels. The plaintiff appealed from so much of the judgment as found that the title to the two parcels was in the defendant; and the defendant appealed from that part of the judgment which found that the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylok, J.
It is evident that the legislature intended, by the passage of sections 4165 and 4166, to make certificates like those introduced by the plaintiff in this case evidence of a legal title. Section 4165" made the receiver’s receipt or certificate of purchase, and the official certificate of any register or receiver of the entry or purchase of any land, or the location of any land by any land warrant, presumptive evidence that the title to the lands described in such certificate or . receipt vested in the person named therein. Section 4166 provides that the register’s certificate that, from the…
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