Pitman v. Hill
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Polk county: A. J. YiNje, Circuit Judge. Action to quiet title. The complaint is in the usual form.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Polk county: A. J. YiNje, Circuit Judge. Action to quiet title. The complaint is in the usual form. Defendant answered, alleging that she was the only heir at law of Benjamin F. Stetson, deceased; that in his lifetime he was owner and possessor of United States land warrant No. 4,571, calling for 420 acres of government land; that one B. P. Pitman, as agent of Stetson, selected and entered under said land warrant tbe lands in question, to wit, tbe southeast quarter of tbe southeast quarter of section 12, town 33, range 19 west, in Polk county,…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
It is conceded that if the trial court was correct in drawing the inferences that are embodied in the findings of fact, the judgment must be affirmed. The sole question for consideration, therefore, is, Are such findings contrary to the clear preponderance of the evidence? It *322hardly needs more than the statement of the evidence found in the foregoing to solve that proposition, when we apply thereto the rules of law governing the subject.
The assignment of the certificate of entry, in terms conveying the same and the land therein described to respondent’s predecessor, was a sufficient written…
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