Hoile v. Bailey
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Portage County. The case is'thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassodat : “ On November 22, 1875, Ebenezer Whitney, being the owner of several hundred acres of pine-timbered land in Marathon county, agreed in writing to sell and convey the same to his brother, George Whitney, and the plaintiff Iloile, then residing in Dixon, Illinois, for $11,000; and thereupon gave to them a bond for a deed, and they paid to him $3,000 of the purchase price within…
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APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Portage County. The case is'thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassodat : “ On November 22, 1875, Ebenezer Whitney, being the owner of several hundred acres of pine-timbered land in Marathon county, agreed in writing to sell and convey the same to his brother, George Whitney, and the plaintiff Iloile, then residing in Dixon, Illinois, for $11,000; and thereupon gave to them a bond for a deed, and they paid to him $3,000 of the purchase price within six months thereafter. George Whitney and Iloile, as partners, went into the logging business and cut considerable…
1Opinion of the Court
■ Cassoday, J.
The failure to furnish a complete, consecutive, and succinct statement of the facts involved, with appropriate references, has made it extremely difficult to comprehend the merits of the real contention on either side. After a very thorough reading and re-reading of the printed case, and as careful an examination of the voluminous unprinted record as time will permit, we are still in doubt as to some of the facts involved. Upon such doubtful questions of fact we are, therefore, necessarily forced to acquiesce in the findings of the trial court. These facts, together with such as…
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