Kent v. Lasley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for W-mnebctgo County. Ejectment, commenced September 24, 1875, for the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 10, town 19, range 15, in said county.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for W-mnebctgo County. Ejectment, commenced September 24, 1875, for the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 10, town 19, range 15, in said county. On the 12th of June, 1849, George Cown owned and was in possession of the southwest quarter of said section 10, and also of the fractional southeast quarter of ‘the adjoining section 9, the whole containing about two hundred acres of land lying in one body and in one enclosure, and all cultivated alike by him-; and with his wife, Sophia Cown, he' resided on the land, and had a right of homestead…
1Opinion of the Court
Ryajst, O. J.
This is the same controversy involved in Kent v. Agard, 22 Wis., 150. The plaintiff in that case is plaintiff here; but the defendants are different. There the defendants were tenants of the defendants here. The judgment there is, therefore, not binding here. Smith v. Pretty, 22 Wis., 655; Towle v. Smith, 27 Wis., 268. And the views on whie-h the judgment rested in that case are not res adjudi-eata in this. The soundness of that decision is therefore as far open to question in this case as if the two cases related to different premises, between different parties.
In Kent v. Agard,…
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