Boardman v. Lorentzen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit' court for St. Croix county: E. W. Helms, Circuit Judge. Action to set aside a conveyance of property on tbe ground of fraud.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit' court for St. Croix county: E. W. Helms, Circuit Judge. Action to set aside a conveyance of property on tbe ground of fraud. Tbe issues tried are indicated by tbe following abridgment' of tbe decision: December 26, 1907, Jacob Sven-son, deceased, a man about seventy-eigbt years of age and possessed of $3,125 in personal property, for a promise on tbe part of defendant and bis wife to care for bim during tbe rest of his life, transferred tbe same to him. Mr. Sven-son was incompetent to make such a contract. He was induced to make it by un Tm ’•-nAup-nce…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRshaul, J.
Were the conclusions of fact reached by application to the case of correct legal principles? Upon surveying the evidence in connection with the treatment of it in the opinion, filed by the learned judge before whom the case was tried, we are strongly impressed with the idea that he was efficiently influenced by a wrong notion of the law.
There is an absolute absence of any direct evidence that appellant or his wife, by act or word, ever suggested to Mr. Svenson the idea of his conveying his property to them or either of them, or that they 'influenced him to' reside with them, or that they ever…
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