Fairchild v. Rasdall
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTY. The cause of action in this case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. A large amount of evidence was taken, fully establishing, by parol, the averments of the bill; but as it is rejected, in the consideration of the opinion of the court, it is omitted here.
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APPEAL PROM CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTY. The cause of action in this case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. A large amount of evidence was taken, fully establishing, by parol, the averments of the bill; but as it is rejected, in the consideration of the opinion of the court, it is omitted here. The following is the.finding and opinion of the circuit court: This action having been called in its order on the calendar, and a trial by jury having been waived by the parties hereto in open court, after hearing the evidence presented, and after mature and due deliberation thereon, I…
1Opinion of the Court
*384 By the Court,
Paine, J.
This suit was brought by the plaintiffs as administrator and administratrix of the estate of Abel Rasdall, deceased, to enjoin the defendant from proceeding in a suit to recover possession of certain real estate in the city of Madison, and to compel a conveyance by him to the plaintiffs. The grounds set forth for relief are that the plaintiffs’ intestate, having in a personal encounter in 1843, dangerously wounded a man named Smith, and being apprehensive of arrest and prosecution, and desirous to so arrange his affairs that he might escape from the country, conveyed…
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