Merrill v. Merrill
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jackson County. The defendants appealed from an order overruling their demurrer to the complaint. The pleadings will sufficiently appear from the opinion. /
1Opinion of the CourtOrton, J.
A demurrer to the complaint on the grounds, first, that several causes of action were improperly joined, and second, that no cause of action is stated, was overruled, and the defendants appealed. The facts are substantially stated in the complaint as follows:
The defendants signed with the plaintiff a note for $300, to one Downer, for the purchase by the plaintiff of him of standing timber on a certain tract of land, and the plaintiff gave to the defendants a mortgage upon such timber, to secure them against the payment of the note, and in such mortgage it was agreed that the timber, when cut,…
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