Mehlhop v. Pettibone
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for IVaulcesha County. The defendant, Bronson Pettíbone, being a merchant at Dubuque, Iowa, and indebted to the plaintiff, Mehlhop, in the sum of about $1,500, and having an undivided two-thirds interest in 160 acres of land in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, conveyed-the same to his wife, Eveline, March 29, 1879, and at the same time took from her a deed - of the homestead in Dubuque, on which they then resided, and had resided for many years, and…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for IVaulcesha County. The defendant, Bronson Pettíbone, being a merchant at Dubuque, Iowa, and indebted to the plaintiff, Mehlhop, in the sum of about $1,500, and having an undivided two-thirds interest in 160 acres of land in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, conveyed-the same to his wife, Eveline, March 29, 1879, and at the same time took from her a deed - of the homestead in Dubuque, on which they then resided, and had resided for many years, and which was of the value of $2,700. On the 10th of July, 1879, Bronson Pettibone made an assignment of all his property,…
1Opinion
The respondent moved for a rehearing; and the following opinion was filed May 10, 1882:
Cassoday, J.
The statement of facts "in this case was neces- . sarily very brief, and merely indicated the view we took of the evidence in consultation, when both points urged for a rehearing were carefully considered, but perhaps not as clearly stated in the opinion as they should have been. The statement in the opinion that Mrs. Pettibone “ parted with a full and adequate consideration,” was perhaps in part an assumption. There may not have been a “full” consideration; but we thought then, and think now,…
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