Norris v. Persons
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Brown County. Action to set aside certain conveyances. On tbe 28th day' of August, 1871, Andrew Reid and bis wife conveyed to tbe defendant Persons, by warranty deed, nine lots in tbe village of "West Depere in said county, “ with tbe steam planing-mill and all other buildings and improvements thereon or to be thereafter constructed, or appertaining thereto,” excepting the engine house situated upon one of said lots and belonging to the…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Brown County. Action to set aside certain conveyances. On tbe 28th day' of August, 1871, Andrew Reid and bis wife conveyed to tbe defendant Persons, by warranty deed, nine lots in tbe village of "West Depere in said county, “ with tbe steam planing-mill and all other buildings and improvements thereon or to be thereafter constructed, or appertaining thereto,” excepting the engine house situated upon one of said lots and belonging to the village of. West Depere, “and also the engine, boiler, machinery and machines therein or used in operating said…
1Opinion of the CourtObtoN, J.
Although the finding of the circuit court is general, sustaining the allegations of the complaint, and’there are no special findings of fact, the case'will be considered in this court upon appeal, so far as its merits are concerned, under the rule that this general finding will not be disturbed unless there is a clear preponderance of the evidence against it. This being a case in equity, after a very full trial, with all the evidence taken and in the record, without passing upon the various questions raised upon matters of practice, and upon the rulings of the circuit court in the admission…
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