Semple v. Whorton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This action was commenced October 8,1885, and is based wholly upon a breach of the covenant of seizin and right to convey.
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APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This action was commenced October 8,1885, and is based wholly upon a breach of the covenant of seizin and right to convey. November 11,1885, the defendants gave notice of an offer to allow judgment for $210, with interest from September 12, 1883, which was rejected. • The jury was waived, and the cause tried by the court May 7,1886. October 12, 1886, the findings of the court were'filed. It appears, in effect, from the findings and record in the case, that September 12, 1883, William and John…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
It appears from the record that October 31, 1872, the county clerk of Shawano county executed and acknowledged a tax deed for the unpaid taxes of 1868, on the sale of 1869, purporting to convey to that county the forty acres of land, the title to which is alleged in the complaint to have been in one Andrew Yang at the time the Whortons purported to convey the same to the plaintiff. That deed was recorded December, 1872, notwithstanding it only had one witness. May 25, 1875, the county clerk of that county executed and acknowledged a quitclaim deed of the same land to one H. Sheldon, and the…
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