Mead v. Norris
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Rock County. In June, 1854, A. Hyatt Smith mortgaged lot 2, block 40, in the city of Janesville, with some water power thereon, to the plaintiff, Mead, as trustee of the separate estate of Ann M. C. Smith, the wife of said mortgagor, in trust for said Ann, to secure the payment of $95,000 belonging to her estate.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Rock County. In June, 1854, A. Hyatt Smith mortgaged lot 2, block 40, in the city of Janesville, with some water power thereon, to the plaintiff, Mead, as trustee of the separate estate of Ann M. C. Smith, the wife of said mortgagor, in trust for said Ann, to secure the payment of $95,000 belonging to her estate. In June, 1856, Smith and wife executed a deed of lease of said lot to Norris for five years from June 1, 1856 ; said Norris to have the right to remove as his own, at or before the expiration of the term, the mill previously erected by him partly on…
1Opinion of the CourtDowner, J.
This case is before us on an appeal from the order of the circuit court, ordering “ that the following orders of the circuit court be set aside and vacated, and that the defendant be allowed to defend said action and the proceedings as for contempt therein: 1st The order by which it was adjudged that the defendant was in contempt of the court, and that said defendant pay to the plaintiff the sum of six thous- *316and dollars. 2d. The order by which leave was granted to the plaintiff to prosecute the bond of the defendant given to obtain his discharge from arrest on attachment for contempt.”
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