Wood v. Lake
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This action was commenced on tbe lltb of May, 1859, by Martha A. Wood, to foreclose a mortgage executed toberby Lalce, to secure tbe payment of bis note for $2,874.62, dated May 1st, 1858, payable to ber one year after date, witb twelve per cent, interest.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This action was commenced on tbe lltb of May, 1859, by Martha A. Wood, to foreclose a mortgage executed toberby Lalce, to secure tbe payment of bis note for $2,874.62, dated May 1st, 1858, payable to ber one year after date, witb twelve per cent, interest. Answer: * 1. As to $1,900 of tbe sum demanded, that certain creditors of George C. Wood, tbe husband of said Martha, wbo bad judgments against bim in tbe United States district court for tbe district of Wisconsin, for over $4,000, (upon wbicb executions bad been returned, no property),…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Dixon, C. J.
It is unnecessary for us to determine in this case whether this court would, under any circumstances, take notice of an understanding or arrangement, verbal or written, between the court before which an action is pending and the counsel for one of the parties to it, which, like that sugested in the affidavit of the appellant’s counsel, was arrived at or made in the absence and without the assent of the opposite party or his counsel, and relates to the time of the trial, the continuance or other disposition of such action; and whether, if we could take such notice, we…
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