Williamson v. Neeves
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Eeank M. Eish, Judge. This action was brought to compel the specific performance of a certain agreement in writing, made between the parties July 22, 1891, by which the plaintiff agreed to sell and convey to the defendant a certain tract of land therein described, containing nine acres, for the sum of $27,000, and to accept, as payment therefor, all the buildings thereon for the sum of $3,000, and eight lots…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Eeank M. Eish, Judge. This action was brought to compel the specific performance of a certain agreement in writing, made between the parties July 22, 1891, by which the plaintiff agreed to sell and convey to the defendant a certain tract of land therein described, containing nine acres, for the sum of $27,000, and to accept, as payment therefor, all the buildings thereon for the sum of $3,000, and eight lots thereof for the sum of $4,000, and tlie remainder of the purchase price was to be secured by a mortgage on said land,…
1Opinion of the CourtPiunbv, J.
1. The bill of exceptions does not state or show that it contains all the evidence given at the trial. The findings of fact by the trial court, therefore, cannot be reviewed, but must be accepted as verities. The presumption is that the findings are correct. Error must be made to appear affirmatively, and the burden of showing it from the record is on the appellant. In re Meseberg’s Estate, 91 Wis. 399; McDermott v. C., M. & St. P. R. Co. 91 Wis. 39, 44.
*6622. The complaint is quite general in its allegations, but it appears to contain all the averments essential to a complaint for specific…
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