Wall v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Polk County. On May 4, 1886, the plaintiff and the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Eailway Company entered into a -written contract to the effect that in consideration of one dollar paid to the plaintiff by the said railway company, the receipt whereof was thereby acknowledged, the said plaintiff did thereby give and grant to said company the right to purchase within one year from the date named, if it should so elect, a strip of…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Polk County. On May 4, 1886, the plaintiff and the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Eailway Company entered into a -written contract to the effect that in consideration of one dollar paid to the plaintiff by the said railway company, the receipt whereof was thereby acknowledged, the said plaintiff did thereby give and grant to said company the right to purchase within one year from the date named, if it should so elect, a strip of land 200 feet in width, therein described, and also another strip of land 125 feet in width, therein described, which…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
This case comes before us upon the pleadings and the findings and judgment of the court. These findings exclude from our consideration the contention apparently made in the trial court, to the effect that a part of the land covered by the contract was included in the plaintiff’s homestead, and that, as the contract was ■ not signed by the plaintiff’s wife, it could not be enforced against the land.
The statute declares, in effect, that every contract for the sale of any lands, or any interest therein, shall be void unless the contract expressing the consideration be in writing, and be…
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