Perkinson v. Clarke
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the municipal court for Mara1-thon county: Louis MaRCHetti, Judge. This action was brought in the municipal court for Marathon county by the respondents to set aside two conveyances of lands and to establish their title thereto as against the appellant. The respondents are the surviving children of John 0. Olarke and Rhoda J. Clarke, and appellant is the widow of John 0. Olarke by a later marriage, and claims the lands through conveyances from him.
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Appeal from a judgment of the municipal court for Mara1-thon county: Louis MaRCHetti, Judge. This action was brought in the municipal court for Marathon county by the respondents to set aside two conveyances of lands and to establish their title thereto as against the appellant. The respondents are the surviving children of John 0. Olarke and Rhoda J. Clarke, and appellant is the widow of John 0. Olarke by a later marriage, and claims the lands through conveyances from him. One parcel of land is located in Lincoln county and is vacant and unoccupied, and the other consists of a house and lot…
1Opinion of the CourtBashford, J.
Tlie appellant challenges the finding of the court that Rhoda J. Clarke paid the premiums on the insurance policy which was pledged to secure the payment of the purchase price of the house and lot in Wausau, on the ground that certain receipts and notes found among the papers of John C. Clarke indicate that some of the payments may hare been made by him, and further that the proof does not show that his wife then had a separate estate. The testimony does not show that Rhoda J". Clarke did not have a separate estate or individual earnings, nor does it show from what source the money was…
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