Siedschlag v. Griffin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeai, from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Dodge county: Jakes J. Dick, Circuit Judge. On February 16, 1904, Annie Donnelly, then the owner and in possession of the real property in question, conveyed the same to her brother John Eox, and on the same day the latter executed back to her a land contract, in the usual form, providing for the payment to Eox of $800. On March 10, 1904, the plaintiffs docketed a judgment in Dodge county in their favor and against Annie…
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Appeai, from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Dodge county: Jakes J. Dick, Circuit Judge. On February 16, 1904, Annie Donnelly, then the owner and in possession of the real property in question, conveyed the same to her brother John Eox, and on the same day the latter executed back to her a land contract, in the usual form, providing for the payment to Eox of $800. On March 10, 1904, the plaintiffs docketed a judgment in Dodge county in their favor and against Annie Donnelly. Thereafter and on March 15, 1904, Annie Donnelly conveyed by deed to John Eox. On March 21, 1904, an execution upon…
1Opinion of the CourtTiMLiN, J.
Notwithstanding the apparent consensus of opinion among the attorneys, we cannot think that there was in any of the conveyances any description of the land in question so uncertain or ambiguous as to avoid the deed or fail to convey the land.
“The general rule is, in respect to grants, that where there are certain particulars once sufficiently ascertained, which designate the thing intended to be granted, the addition of a circumstance false or mistaken will not frustrate the grant.” Thompson v. Jones, 4 Wis. 106.
It has often been said that a description sufficient to enable a surveyor to…
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