Pfeiffer v. Marshall
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. Tbe action was brought to recover interest on a note given for tbe purchase of an interest in real estate under a land contract.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. Tbe action was brought to recover interest on a note given for tbe purchase of an interest in real estate under a land contract. The complaint alleges in effect that on the 7 th and 8th of May, 1903, the plaintiffs by land contracts sold to the defendants an undivided one-third interest in 28.21 acres of land, for which the defendants agreed to pay $15,000 within five years and $100 annually towards the taxes on such real estate during said five years; that defendants paid two instal-ments of…
1Opinion of the CourtEjsbwiN, J.
Upon the established facts we see no escape from affirmance of the judgment, and therefore consideration of many of the alleged errors discussed by the appellants is rendered unnecessary. Aside from the findings of the jury set out in the statement of facts to the effect that the defendants knew, or by the exercise of due vigilance ought to have known, that Hie representations were false, it is established without substantial dispute that in July, 1904, the defendants had knowledge that the representations respecting the value of the land in question were false and that such value was not…
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