Hill v. True
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Sauk county: H. G. SiebeoKee, Circuit Judge.. , Counsel for the appellant True contended, inter alia,, that respondent was seventeen years old when the transactions took place, and must have known whether his father died testate or intestate. He neglected to investigate and ascertain his rights in his father’s property for twenty-seven years. He was therefore guilty of the grossest kind of laches.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Sauk county: H. G. SiebeoKee, Circuit Judge.. , Counsel for the appellant True contended, inter alia,, that respondent was seventeen years old when the transactions took place, and must have known whether his father died testate or intestate. He neglected to investigate and ascertain his rights in his father’s property for twenty-seven years. He was therefore guilty of the grossest kind of laches. Boyers v. Van Hortwick, 87 "Wls. 414; Thomas v. Thomas, SSWis. 88; Melonsv. PabstB. Go. 93"Wis. 153; Penn M. L. Ins. Go. v. Austin, 168 U.-S. 685;…
1Opinion of the CourtCassodat, C. J.
This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint in an action to determine the rights of the plaintiff in the property described, and alleging, in effect, the following facts:
*296On June 27, 1865, one Amos E. Ilill, father of the plaintiff and. the defendant True’s testatrix, executed his will at his residence in New Hampshire, wherein, after the payment, of his debts and funeral expenses, he gaye and bequeathed to his wife, Nancy S. Hill, all of his household furniture, all the provisions he plight have on hand at the time of his decease, and one good cow and one farrow…
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