Brown v. Peck
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN EQUITY, PROM THE SAUK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT. This was an appeal in equity from the Circuit Court of Sauk county. The complainant’s hill sets forth, that in the month of May, 1847, he, the complainant, purchased from the United States a certain tract of land, situate in the county of Sauk, and received from e register of the land office at Mineral Point, a duplicate therefor.
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APPEAL IN EQUITY, PROM THE SAUK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT. This was an appeal in equity from the Circuit Court of Sauk county. The complainant’s hill sets forth, that in the month of May, 1847, he, the complainant, purchased from the United States a certain tract of land, situate in the county of Sauk, and received from e register of the land office at Mineral Point, a duplicate therefor. Which tract is described as the east half of the southeast quarter of sec. 36, town 12, 1ST. of range 6 east. ' ' That after he had purchased the said land, and in the month of November, 1847, and in the night of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
The bill is filed in this case to avoid and set aside a deed of the complainant to the defendant, Bosaline Peck, for a certain tract of land in the county of Sauk, which he alleges was made, executed and acknowledged under duress.
The bill states, that in the month of May, A. D. 1847,. the complainant purchased the land in question from the United States, and received the register’s duplicate therefor; that in the night of the 23d of November following, while he was in bed at the tavern house of Marcus Warren, in Prairie du Sac, in said county of Sauk, he was forcibly…
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