Hamachek v. Duvall
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Kewau-nee county: Michael KiRwaN, Circuit Judge. This is an action brought under sec. 3186, Stats. (1898), to quiet the title to two strips of land in the city of Kewaunee to which the plaintiff claimed title by adverse possession. Many of the facts were undisputed.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Kewau-nee county: Michael KiRwaN, Circuit Judge. This is an action brought under sec. 3186, Stats. (1898), to quiet the title to two strips of land in the city of Kewaunee to which the plaintiff claimed title by adverse possession. Many of the facts were undisputed. Eor many years prior to April, 1880, the defendant owned the whole of government lot 4, a tract of several acres lying south, of the harbor and on the shore of Lake Michigan, in the city of Kewaunee, which tract was hounded on the south by an east and west street called Ellis street.…
1Opinion of the Court
Winslow, 0. J.
We have carefully examined the evidence and find no good ground for- disturbing any of the findings of fact which were in dispute upon the trial concerning the location of the lines of the original gift or the. character and extent of the plaintiff’s possession since April, 1880.
A serious question arises, however, as to the legal effect of certain facts found by the court upon the plaintiff’s claim of continuous adverse possession. These facts were not referred to in the preliminary statement of the case, but will now be stated. In the latter part of 1883 one Janda bought a half…
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