Kuchera v. Kuchera
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Vernon county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. Action in equity to reform a deed to forty-five acres of land given June 27, 1917, by plaintiff to his son Edward and his wife in consideration of an annual payment of $55 and the support for life of plaintiff and his wife.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Vernon county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. Action in equity to reform a deed to forty-five acres of land given June 27, 1917, by plaintiff to his son Edward and his wife in consideration of an annual payment of $55 and the support for life of plaintiff and his wife. A like deed to eighty acres was given to his older son, James, the consideration for which, expressed in a .contemporaneous written agreement, was that James should support plaintiff and his wife during' their natural life and pay $3,000 to plaintiff on January 1, 1925, without…
1DissentEschweiler, J.
The plaintiff in this case, an illiterate person advanced in years, conveyed by deed his *111entire real estate, all on the same day, to his two sons and their respective wives; an eighty-acre farm to one son, Wenzel, with a written agreement that such son was “to furnish all goods and wares and material necessary for support of parties of the first part [being the plaintiff and his wife] during their lifetime, pay all necessary doctor bills and funeral expenses in case of death, and also to pay $3,000 January 1, 1925, without interest;” a forty-five-acre tract to the son Edward, since deceased,…
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- Scholl v. MuscovitzWisconsin Supreme Court · 1919