McGonigal v. Colter
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Grant County. Tbe defendant Colter, being the administrator de bonis non of tbe estate of Green "VV.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Grant County. Tbe defendant Colter, being the administrator de bonis non of tbe estate of Green "VV. Bruce, deceased, procured a license from the county court of Grant county to sell certain real property belonging to the estate to pay the debts of the deceased ; and the said Colter as principal, and one James E. Chapman as surety, executed to the county judge a bond, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned that such administrator should dispose of the proceeds of such sale in the manner provided by law. This bond bears date October 2d, 1851,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed at the January term, 1873.
Lyon, J.
In the absence of any argument or brief on behalf of the defendants, it is not deemed necessary to enter into any extended discussion of the questions presented for determination by the demurrer to the complaint. We shall therefore add but little to a mere statement of the conclusions to which we have been impelled by the investigation of those questions, and in doing so we will not attempt to follow the order in which they are presented in the demurrer.
I. The action is not barred by the statute of limitations. It is brought…
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