Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co. v. Hewett
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. Ejectment agaiust Henry Hewett, Jr., Wm. P. Hewett, Peter Peuter and Alexander Reuter, to recover certain land in Outagamie county. The complaint is in the usual form.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. Ejectment agaiust Henry Hewett, Jr., Wm. P. Hewett, Peter Peuter and Alexander Reuter, to recover certain land in Outagamie county. The complaint is in the usual form. The defendants answered jointly, admitting that the defendants Reuter were in possession of the land claimed, as tenants of the defendants Hewett, and denying that the plaintiff owned the land or was entitled to the possession of it, or that the defendants unlawfully withhold the possession thereof from it. The action having been tried without a jury, the court found for the…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
The plaintiff company claims title to the whole of the land in controversy under a deed from Morgan L. Martin to it, executed in February and recorded in May, 1873. The defendants Hewett claim title to an undivided half of the same land under a deed to them executed by said Martin, and recorded in January, 1880. For the purposes of the case it will be assumed that Martin was the absolute owner of the land, in fee, when he executed the deed thereof to the plaintiff in 1873, and that he derived title to an undivided one-half thereof by a deed theretofore ’ executed to him by one Lawe, who then…
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