Cole v. Van Ostrand
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Price county: A. J. Viwje, Judge. This was a suit in equity to quiet title and bar the defendants as to certain lands in Price county.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Price county: A. J. Viwje, Judge. This was a suit in equity to quiet title and bar the defendants as to certain lands in Price county. The title set up by the plaintiff rested upon the fact that the county of Price in 1899 held tax certificates for the tax sales of 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, and 1899, and on March 29, 1899, took out tax deed upon the certificate of 1895 for the tax of 1894, which deed was recorded on March 80th; also, the county on June 22d took out another tax deed upon the certificate of 1896 for the tax of 1895, which was…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed February 19, 1907:
Dodge, J.
It should perhaps be premised that this is one •of four cases argued successively which present many questions common to more than one of them. The briefs for appellant are industriously confused by reference one to the other; by omitting in some "all discussion of questions prominent in that particular case, and devoting much space to repetition of arguments on questions arising in others, but wholly absent in the case in hand. Thus the brief in the present case is almost entirely devoted to the contention that by reason of an…
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