Graves v. Mitchell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for "Wauke-sha county: A. Scott Sloan, Circuit Judge. On November 25, 1868, the plaintiff, Rachel Graves, and the deceased, William Graves, were husband and wife.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for "Wauke-sha county: A. Scott Sloan, Circuit Judge. On November 25, 1868, the plaintiff, Rachel Graves, and the deceased, William Graves, were husband and wife. On-that day the said William Graves, under his hand and seal,, executed and delivered to one Lyman F. Stowe, as trustee for his wife, the said Rachel, a bond in the penal sum of $6,000, to be paid to the said trustee for the said Rachelv and to the heirs of her body, for which he thereby bound himself, his heirs, administrators, and assigns. The condi-lions of said bond were to the effect…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The bond from William Graves to Lyman sF. Stowe, as trustee, and the mortgage from William Graves *312and Ms wife, Rachel, to Stowe to secure that bond, and the-bond from Stowe back to William Graves, mentioned in the-foregoing statement, must be taken and considered together-as one instrument, and, when so considered, they were manifestly made with the intention of securing to Rachel in case-she survived her husband, and to her children by a former • husband in case William survived her, the sum of $6,000, to-become due and payable upon the death of William or Rachel (whichever should first…
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