Brown v. Cohn
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Oneida, County. This is an action of ejectment in which the plaintiff had judgment for the recovery of the'premises claimed, upon a trial before the court without a jury, a jury trial having been waived by stipulation of the parties.
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APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Oneida, County. This is an action of ejectment in which the plaintiff had judgment for the recovery of the'premises claimed, upon a trial before the court without a jury, a jury trial having been waived by stipulation of the parties. This judgment was reversed on appeal (Brown v. (John, So Wis. 1, where the ease is sufficiently stated), this court having held that the tax deeds under which the defendants claimed the premises were properly executed and valid tax deeds. After the canse had been remanded for a new trial, the defendants made a motion, founded…
1Opinion of the CourtPinkisy, J.
1. Tins action is strictly a legal one for the trial of the question of title to the lands in dispute. The defendants seek to set up by way of counterclaim, in substance, that the certificates of redemption on which the plaintiff relies to defeat two of the tax deeds under which the defendants claim title to the premises are false, forged, *633and fraudulent, and that they constitute a cloud and claim upon and against the defendants’ title bo the lands in question ; and they ask judgment that the receipts be delivered up and canceled, and their title to the lands be quieted and established as…
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