Eyerts v. Agnes
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN EQUITY PEOM DEGREE OP THE CIRCUIT COURT OE MILWAUKEE COUNTY. The bill alleges that some time previous to 1851, complainant Everts was seized in fee of the equal undivided one-half part of certain real estate in Milwaukee county, which had been formerly purchased by complainant and one Peter Bender of Agnes; and that being so seized, complainant made a written agreement, on the 3ist of May, 1851, with said Agnes, to convey to him complainant’s said interest in said…
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APPEAL IN EQUITY PEOM DEGREE OP THE CIRCUIT COURT OE MILWAUKEE COUNTY. The bill alleges that some time previous to 1851, complainant Everts was seized in fee of the equal undivided one-half part of certain real estate in Milwaukee county, which had been formerly purchased by complainant and one Peter Bender of Agnes; and that being so seized, complainant made a written agreement, on the 3ist of May, 1851, with said Agnes, to convey to him complainant’s said interest in said premises, and the mill thereon, for the consideration of five hundred and seventy-five dollars, and one thousand feet of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
It is 'hardly possible to dispose of this case without recapitulating some, and perhaps most of the material allegations and facts involved therein; yet with the statement of the case which will precede the conclusions to which we have here arrived, and which will fully appear in the. report of the case, it is only necessary to recur to them incidentally as the discussion of the principles involved, and of the points argued, shall seem to require.
On the 81st day of May, A. D. 1851, a written memorandum, very informal and incomplete, was entered into between the…
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