Knowlton v. Walker
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Dane County. Knowlton filed Ms bill, August 31, 1855, in tbe circuit court for Hock county, against Walker, Baker, Leake, Smith, Story and Hicks, to redeem certain lands situate in that county.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Dane County. Knowlton filed Ms bill, August 31, 1855, in tbe circuit court for Hock county, against Walker, Baker, Leake, Smith, Story and Hicks, to redeem certain lands situate in that county. Tbe complainant claimed title tbrougb several mesne conveyances from one Belding; and tbe written instruments which are relied upon in tbe bill, and referred to in tbe opinion of tbe court, as creating tbe relation of mortgagor and mortgagee between Walker and Baker on tbe one side and Belding on tbe other, are in substance as follows : 1. A bond executed by Belding to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
DIXON, C. J.
This a hill to redeem, filed under the old system, by the respondent, as the owner of the equity of redemption, against the appellant and one Bilis Baker, as original mortgagees, and Isaac E. Leake, Samuel D. Smith, Lewis Story, and John Hicks, as having or claiming some interest in the mortgaged premises under the mortgagees first named. The premises in controversy are two hundred and forty acres of land, situate in the county of Rock. So far as the written instruments are concerned, the transaction between the original parties is in all respects the same as that…
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