Heinselman v. Hunsicker
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR-to review a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: JohN GoodlaND, Circuit Judge. Ejectment for a strip of land, 2.36 chains wide at the north end and 2.5 chains at the south end, on the east side of the S. W. J of the S. W. ■£ of section 19, T. 21 N., E. 15 E., in Outagamie county.
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ERROR-to review a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: JohN GoodlaND, Circuit Judge. Ejectment for a strip of land, 2.36 chains wide at the north end and 2.5 chains at the south end, on the east side of the S. W. J of the S. W. ■£ of section 19, T. 21 N., E. 15 E., in Outagamie county. The answer contains several defenses: (1) General denial; (2) ten years’ limitation, and possession under written instruments; (3) twenty years’ adverse possession; (4) facts supposed to constitute an estoppel. On the trial, the court directed a verdict for the defendant in error for the…
1Opinion of the CourtBardeeN, J.
We attempt the solution of the questions presented in this case with considerable vexation of spirit. The numerous mistakes in the printed case,— the failure to make an index to either case or record, and to note in the case, as the rule requires, the page of the record where the printed matter could be found; the rambling, desultory, and contradictory character of the testimony; and the failure of counsel to cause witnesses to so connect their testimony with the locus in qtio as to make it intelligible when produced in print,— has greatly increased our labors, and rendered a satisfactory…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Wright v. DayWisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
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