Watson v. Wilcox
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Mock County. The case stated in tbe complaint is substantially as follows: On June 29,1864, Allen Bates and tbe defendant George Harvey were in possession, and tbe apparent owners of .certain lands in Bock county, claiming title to a portion of tbe same by deed, dated August 4, 1860, from Henry Naiden, wbo bad become tbe owner of tbe same by foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by tbe defendant Wilcox, dated April 4,1857; and to tbe…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Mock County. The case stated in tbe complaint is substantially as follows: On June 29,1864, Allen Bates and tbe defendant George Harvey were in possession, and tbe apparent owners of .certain lands in Bock county, claiming title to a portion of tbe same by deed, dated August 4, 1860, from Henry Naiden, wbo bad become tbe owner of tbe same by foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by tbe defendant Wilcox, dated April 4,1857; and to tbe remainder under a tax deed dated September 13, 1861, and a sheriffs deed dated September 27, 1862, wbicb was executed…
1Opinion of the CourtRtaN, C. J.
This appeal involves two distinct questions:
I. The sufficiency of the Us pendens in the action brought by the respondent against Bates and others.
That was a,suit in equity, seeking to have certain conveyances held for mortgages only, and certain other conveyances held to be void. Notice of the pendency of the action was filed, stating the nature of the suit, enumerating the several conveyances involved, and describing the land conveyed by each conveyance. We cannot doubt,- and we do not understand it to be seriously questioned, that if the notice had there stopped, it. would have been a…
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