Wright v. Sperry
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Fayette County. Ejectment. Plaintiff, W. H. Wright, claimed under tbe purchaser at a foreclosure sale, in Dec., 1859 ; and also under a tax deed to one Gfeorge W. Wright, made March 27th, 1861, on a sale in 1857, for taxes of 1856.* The circuit court held the tax deed invalid, because Mr. Sperry, in whose name the land was assessed, resided thereon, with sufficient personal property to satisfy the taxes.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Fayette County. Ejectment. Plaintiff, W. H. Wright, claimed under tbe purchaser at a foreclosure sale, in Dec., 1859 ; and also under a tax deed to one Gfeorge W. Wright, made March 27th, 1861, on a sale in 1857, for taxes of 1856.* The circuit court held the tax deed invalid, because Mr. Sperry, in whose name the land was assessed, resided thereon, with sufficient personal property to satisfy the taxes. It also held that plaintiff acquired only an undivided fourth part of the land at the foreclosure sale; that Mrs. Sperry owned, the other undivided…
1Opinion of the CourtDowner, J.
Sperry and wife, in 1856, made three mortgages to Gribble of eighty acres of land, each containing a covenant of warranty of title. Gribble assigned the mortgages to Halstead, who foreclosed them; and the appellant claims title under the purchaser at the foreclosure sale. Sperry and wife, at the time the mortgages were made, were in possession of the land, but had title to only an undivided one-fourth part thereof, and the title to that was in the wife. After the purchaser at the foreclosure sale had received and caused to be recorded the sheriff’s deed of the premises, Mrs. Sperry purchased…
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