Morse v. Stockman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wauhesha County. The following statement of the case was prepared by .Mr. Justice Cassoday: It appears from the record that December 21,1880, John M. Stockman executed his will, whereby, among other things, he, by the fourth clause thereof, devised the real estate in question to his wife, “Louisa, to her use during her life, and after her decease to ” his two sons, “ Charles and Ealph, during their lives, and to their heirs, share and share…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wauhesha County. The following statement of the case was prepared by .Mr. Justice Cassoday: It appears from the record that December 21,1880, John M. Stockman executed his will, whereby, among other things, he, by the fourth clause thereof, devised the real estate in question to his wife, “Louisa, to her use during her life, and after her decease to ” his two sons, “ Charles and Ealph, during their lives, and to their heirs, share and share alike,” with a power of sale in the widow; that March 18, 1881, John M. Stockman died, leaving, among other property,…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
It sufficiently appears from the judgment and decree of the county court, entered January 13, 1883, that John M. Stockman and his widow had previously died, and that the will above mentioned had been admitted to probate. It is claimed that the several sheriff’s deeds were improperly admitted in evidence by reason of their not being accompanied by the several judgment rolls in which the several executions were issued upon which the sales to the plaintiff were made. But the statute required such deeds, as well as the records thereof, to be received in evidence, “ without any proof whatever of…
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