Blaha v. Borgman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Langlade ■county: John G-oodland, Circuit Judge. Action to quiet title. Answer, with, counterclaim, asked ■same relief in behalf of defendant.
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Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Langlade ■county: John G-oodland, Circuit Judge. Action to quiet title. Answer, with, counterclaim, asked ■same relief in behalf of defendant. Both, plaintiffs and defendant deraign title from one C. F. Smith: defendant, by a sheriff’s deed on execution -under a judgment docketed in the -circuit court for Langlade county, March 18, 1902; the plaintiffs, by two deeds from Smith, both dated prior to said March 18th, but delivered subsequently. These two deeds ran, respectively, to one John Hartl and John Lewis, an undivided half to each. It was…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
1. Considering first the plaintiffs’ appeal: The judgment denying their title to the half interest covered by the deed to Lewis was predicated upon a finding reciting-Lewis’s and Eorbes’s claim to an equitable one-half interest, but declaring that neither J. 0. Lewis nor C. E. Forbes had in fact any legal or equitable right, title, or interest. We cannot consider this part of the finding other than a conclusion of law, for the evidence as to detail facts is undisputed. It appeared that for two or three years prior to 1892 Smith was buying tax titles and thereby acquired the land in dispute…
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