Richtman v. Watson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Walworth county: Laweewoe W. Halsey, Judge. Equitable action to establish title in plaintiffs to an undivided three-fourths interest in certain lands, charge defendants Wingfield Watson and Elizabeth White as trustees of such title for plaintiffs, and compel conveyance thereof to them. The facts upon which plaintiffs grounded their claim are indicated in the epitome of the findings hereafter given.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Walworth county: Laweewoe W. Halsey, Judge. Equitable action to establish title in plaintiffs to an undivided three-fourths interest in certain lands, charge defendants Wingfield Watson and Elizabeth White as trustees of such title for plaintiffs, and compel conveyance thereof to them. The facts upon which plaintiffs grounded their claim are indicated in the epitome of the findings hereafter given. Defendant Watson joined issue as to all allegations in the complaint which, if true, would support plaintiffs’ theory as to his holding title in…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 4, 1912:
MaRshalu, J.
The Teal facts in this case are not in serious dispute on the evidence, and the controversy is governed by familial’- principles of written and unwifitten law.
The first proposition is this: If a person, having real estate, verbally forms a copartnership with others to conduct a particular business, such real estate being remote from and not *391suitable for nor intended to be used as'such, or in any form, in sucb business, agrees that it shall be considered part of the partnership property, does that transfer the title thereto in ■equity so…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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