Ladd v. Hildebrant
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Green County. Ejectment, for a half-quarter section of land. The plaintiff owned the land in 1854; and in that year a deed thereof, purporting to be executed by her and by John L. Ladd, who was then her husband, was delivered to one Manchester; and by several intermediate conveyances the possession .and Manchester’s title became vested in the defendant.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Green County. Ejectment, for a half-quarter section of land. The plaintiff owned the land in 1854; and in that year a deed thereof, purporting to be executed by her and by John L. Ladd, who was then her husband, was delivered to one Manchester; and by several intermediate conveyances the possession .and Manchester’s title became vested in the defendant. The deed to Manchester was not executed in fact by Mrs. Ladd, but her name was signed thereto by a Mrs. West. The plaintiff was divorced from John L. Ladd in 1865, and soon after brought this action. The court…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
The jury have found (under an instruction which was unexceptionable to the defendant, in fact one which was asked by him, and given, and subsequently repeated and made more explicit in the charge of the court) that there was no power of attorney executed and delivered by the plaintiff to her husband before the execution and delivery of the deed by him to Manchester. There was irreconcilable conflict of testimony upon this point, and it is hard to believe that there was not falsehood and perjury on one side or the other. But the jury have settled the question upon a sufficiency of evidence,…
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