Coyle v. Davis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tlie Circuit Court for Dodge County. The plaintiff sought in this action to have a certain forty acre tract to which she held title in fee, and another forty in which she claimed a right of dower, discharged from the lien of certain mortgages. These tracts are respectively the S. W. qr. of the S. W. qr. of sec. 24, and the N. W. qr. of the N. W. qr. of sec. 25, in town 10 N., R. 15 E., in said county.
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APPEAL from tlie Circuit Court for Dodge County. The plaintiff sought in this action to have a certain forty acre tract to which she held title in fee, and another forty in which she claimed a right of dower, discharged from the lien of certain mortgages. These tracts are respectively the S. W. qr. of the S. W. qr. of sec. 24, and the N. W. qr. of the N. W. qr. of sec. 25, in town 10 N., R. 15 E., in said county. On the 13th of December, 1859, one Richard Jarman was, and for a long time had beeD, seized and possessed of said tracts, and also of the S. E. qr. of the S. E. qr. of said sec. 24;…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
As to the plaintiff and her husband not having purchased in good faith and for a valuable consideration, we are of opinion that there is no evidence to support such a conclusion. The court below found that they were grantees by conveyances from Richard Jarman and wife, but did not find that the conveyances were either fraudulent or voluntary. The effect of this finding is, that they were purchasers in good faith and for value. Whether the judge intended so to find or not, an examination of the evidence convinces us that such ought to have been the finding.
The court also found that at the time…
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