Hudson v. Trustees of the Funds & Property of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county. E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. One Amelia- B. Trener had lived for a great many years in the village of Mazomanie and was a member of and took great interest in the welfare of the Episcopal church in that village. For about thirty years she and the defendant Mrs. Martha E. Gleason were near neighbors and intimate friends.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county. E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. One Amelia- B. Trener had lived for a great many years in the village of Mazomanie and was a member of and took great interest in the welfare of the Episcopal church in that village. For about thirty years she and the defendant Mrs. Martha E. Gleason were near neighbors and intimate friends. On January 4, 1919, Miss Trener, then being about eighty-three years of age and ill, was removed from her homestead to the home of Mrs. Gleason. At that time Miss Trener had certain certificates of deposit in her…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The plaintiff, administrator with the will annexed of the deceased, Amelia B. Trener, insists that the evidence does not support the conclusion of the trial court that there was a valid and binding gift by Miss Trener to the defendant trustees.
Mrs. Gleason was examined in the-county court with reference to the transactions ''between herself and Miss Trener, and later again examined on the trial in the court below. Much stress is laid by appellant upon the circumstance that in the examination in the county court Mrs. Gleason did not say, as she did in the circuit court, that she was told by…
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