Cordes v. Coates
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Grcmt County. This action is to reform a deed of land. In 1883, defendant owned a farm on sections 16 and 21 in a township in Grant county.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Grcmt County. This action is to reform a deed of land. In 1883, defendant owned a farm on sections 16 and 21 in a township in Grant county. It included the W. of the S. W. and the S. E. J of the S. W. J of section 16, except five acres theretofore conveyed to others, and fifty-three acres on the north side of the N. W. ¿ of section 21, which is south of and adjoining section 16. A highway extended easterly and westerly through the farm which the parties supposed was on, or very near, the line between the two sections. November, 1883, plaintiff purchased of…
1Opinion of the CourtLxon, J.
The case turns almost entirely upon questions of fact, and calls for but little discussion. The proofs satisfy us that the contract between the parties for the purchase and sale of the land included all of defendant’s farm north of the highway. Also that defendant gave directions to Mr. Bell to write the deed as it was written in good faith, believing that the descriptions therein covered all his farm north of the highway. Plaintiff accepted the deed in the same belief, and until 1889 neither of them doubted or suspected that the deed failed to convey the whole of the land thus purchased by…
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