Hiles v. Atlee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wood county: Chakles M. Webb, Circuit Judge. This is an action of ejectment commenced June 3,' 1889,. to recover eighty acres of land. The complaint is in the-statutory form, and also claims $5,000 damages for the cutting and removing from the lands 1,000,000 feet of lumber, board measure, during the winter of 1886-87, by the defendants, and the conversion of the same to their own use.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wood county: Chakles M. Webb, Circuit Judge. This is an action of ejectment commenced June 3,' 1889,. to recover eighty acres of land. The complaint is in the-statutory form, and also claims $5,000 damages for the cutting and removing from the lands 1,000,000 feet of lumber, board measure, during the winter of 1886-87, by the defendants, and the conversion of the same to their own use. The-answer admits the cutting and removal from the premises, of 410,000 feet by the defendants, of the value of $1,000,. but otherwise denies each and every…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The question on the former appeal was whether the nonsuit was properly granted for want of proper evidence of title in the plaintiff. 80 Wis. 219. The •objection now raised to the plaintiff’s title is to the effect that the original title found to have been acquired by the plaintiff must be deemed to have been divested by the tax *78title acquired by "Weston, Miner, and Kingston.; that Weston died prior to the time when the plaintiff acquired that title; that Weston’s will was admitted to probate, January 3, 1888; that, after providing for the payment of debts and specific legacies of personalty…
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