Link v. Doerfer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Manitowoc County. Ejectment. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that the land was entered by one Gerster in August, 1855, and conveyed by him to the plaintiff in 1874. Defendant’s evidence tended to show, 1. That in November, 1857, Gerster and one Moader entered into a contract by which the former agreed to convey said land to the latter in consideration of certain moneys then paid, and of certain payments thereafter to be made, the…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Manitowoc County. Ejectment. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that the land was entered by one Gerster in August, 1855, and conveyed by him to the plaintiff in 1874. Defendant’s evidence tended to show, 1. That in November, 1857, Gerster and one Moader entered into a contract by which the former agreed to convey said land to the latter in consideration of certain moneys then paid, and of certain payments thereafter to be made, the last installment falling due in four years from that date, the vendee agreeing to pay all taxes that might be assessed upon…
1Opinion of the CourtEyaN, C. J.
The controlling question in this case is, whether the possession of Hilbert, the grantee in the tax deed, was such as to impose upon him a duty to pay the taxes for nonpayment of which the deed issued. Whitney v. Gunderson, 31 Wis., 359.
And on the character of this possession, there is singular poverty of proof. There is no evidence tending to show *394whether Hilbert entered in subservience or adversely to the title of the respondent; or whether he claimed any or what right of possession, before he took the tax deed; or whether the premises were assessed to him for the tax for which the deed…
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