Lee v. Simpson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Dane county. Action to quiet title to land. Tbe complaint, as a first cause of action, sets forth a mortgage from tbe defendants Simpson to tbe defendants Bogan, made in 1855 ; a suit commenced to foreclose it, wbicb went to judgment, was appealed, and settled pending tbe appeal, tbe first named defendants giving another mortgage tberefor, dated November 4, 1861, by wbicb they agreed to pay 1,600 bushels of wheat to the Ragans; that a suit…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Dane county. Action to quiet title to land. Tbe complaint, as a first cause of action, sets forth a mortgage from tbe defendants Simpson to tbe defendants Bogan, made in 1855 ; a suit commenced to foreclose it, wbicb went to judgment, was appealed, and settled pending tbe appeal, tbe first named defendants giving another mortgage tberefor, dated November 4, 1861, by wbicb they agreed to pay 1,600 bushels of wheat to the Ragans; that a suit was commenced to foreclose that mortgage, which .was discontinued, and the said mortgage satisfied, of record June 2,…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe following opinion was filed at tbe June term, 1871:
DixoN, C. J.
Tbe first count of tbe complaint alleges tbat tbe deed of conveyance, dated May 10, 1863, executed by tbe defendants Samuel Simpson and Sydney Simpson, bis wife, to tbe defendant Sophia A. Bagan, and delivered to her husband, tbe defendant Ransom Bagan, for her, on tbe 2d day of June, 1863, was in fee simple and absolute, and that it was so intended to be made and delivered in satisfaction of tbe mortgage debt Tbe averment is, tbat tbe husbands Samuel Simpson and Ransom Ragan, were “ acting as, and were, tbe agents of their…
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