Coleman v. Hunt
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Orawford County. Action to foreclose a mortgage. The separate answers of the defendants set up several defenses, including payment and a former adjudication of the matters mentioned in the complaint. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Cole, O. J.
After the action of Hunt v. Rooney, ante, p. 258, had gone to judgment in the circuit court, the plaintiff commenced this action to foreclose his mortgage. All the defendants except Rooney answered, setting up the proceedings in the case of Hunt v. Rooney, and claiming that the judgment therein was a bar to this action. On the issues made by the pleadings the case came on for trial, and it appearing to the court, as the record in substance recites, that the matters set up by the defendants as a prior adjudication and in bar to the plaintiff’s action might determine the entire…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Denny v. BennettSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
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