Hahn v. Keith
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sauk county: James O’Neill, Judge. Action begun June 4, 1917, to quiet title to eighty acres of land originally owned by William Keith, the plaintiff’s father. The defendants claimed title to the land as heirs and cotenants of plaintiff and asked for partition and an accounjiing.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sauk county: James O’Neill, Judge. Action begun June 4, 1917, to quiet title to eighty acres of land originally owned by William Keith, the plaintiff’s father. The defendants claimed title to the land as heirs and cotenants of plaintiff and asked for partition and an accounjiing. Joseph Keith, the original plaintiff, has died since the appeal was taken and his administrator, W. H. Hahn, has been substituted in his place, but for convenience Joseph Keith will be called the plaintiff. William Keith, the father of plaintiff and the common ancestor…
1DissentEschweiler, J.
Although the court below based its conclusion that plaintiff was owner apparently upon two grounds: first, more than twenty years’ adverse possession, and second, by entry under the deed from his mother of November, 1883, recorded August 17, 1901, and more than ten years’ possession thereunder, yet the majority opinion mentions only the first ground as the basis of its judgment. The opinion specifies no definite time when the plaintiff flung to the breeze his banner of exclusive *529ownership (Ill. S. Co. v. Jeka, 123 Wis. 419, 430, 101 N. W. 399) so as to transform what was until then concededly…
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