Wegge v. Madler
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Apeeau from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: WaeeeN D. TaeeaNt, Circuit Judge. Tbis is an action of ejectment. Tbe facts are undisputed, or found by tbe court, and are to tbe following effect: Ogden avenue runs east and west and is eighty feet wide. Yan Burén street is eighty feet wide, and crosses that avenue at right angles.
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Apeeau from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: WaeeeN D. TaeeaNt, Circuit Judge. Tbis is an action of ejectment. Tbe facts are undisputed, or found by tbe court, and are to tbe following effect: Ogden avenue runs east and west and is eighty feet wide. Yan Burén street is eighty feet wide, and crosses that avenue at right angles. The north side of lot 1, in block 137, abuts upon tbe south side of Ogden avenue, and the west end of that lot also abuts upon the east side of Yan Burén street. Adjoining that lot on the south side thereof is lot No. 2 in the same block, and that…
1Opinion of the Court
Cassoday, O. T.
1. It will be observed that the description of the land conveyed to the plaintiff commenced at a point fifty feet east of the northwest corner of lot 1, whereas the description of the land conveyed to the defendant Madler commenced at the northwest corner of lot 1. Thus it appears that the northwest corner of the lot was to be the northwest comer of Madler's land, and that a point fifty feet east of that comer was to be the northwest corner of the plaintiff’s land. The important question in the case, therefore, is as to the location of the northwest corner of that lot. The…
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