Illinois Steel Co. v. Bilot
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: J. C.' Lijdwig, Judge. Action in ejectment. The complaint was in the usual form. The answer contained a plea of the twenty-year statute of limitations. Sec. 4207, Stats. 1898. The defense thus pleaded was the one relied upon on the trial.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: J. C.' Lijdwig, Judge. Action in ejectment. The complaint was in the usual form. The answer contained a plea of the twenty-year statute of limitations. Sec. 4207, Stats. 1898. The defense thus pleaded was the one relied upon on the trial. To maintain plaintiff’s case evidence was produced showing jprwna facie record title in itself of a portion of two lots in fractional section 33, township 7, range 22 E., and competent evidence that such portion includes the premises in dispute. The evidence on the part of defendants was to…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 8, 1901:
Marshall, J.
We understand the statement which appears in the record, as to the proof of title upon which plaintiff rested its claim and secured the judgment appealed from, to mean this: A record was exhibited which purported to show that the United States or the state of Wisconsin, most likely the former, prior to 1872, made a patent, in form conveying to private ownership a certain government subdivision of land within and according to the public land survey; that such title as was thus acquired was by mesne conveyances vested in plaintiff…
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