Kriz v. Peege
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe superior court of Milwaukee county: OeeeN T. Williams, Judge. Action to recover tbe balance due upon a lease. Tbe cause was tried by tbe court. Facts were found in effect as follows: October 25, 1892, under a written lease, tbe relation of landlord and tenant was in form created between plaintiff and defendants in respect to certain real estate in tbe city of Milwaukee. Plaintiff’s son assumed authority to represent bim in the matter.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe superior court of Milwaukee county: OeeeN T. Williams, Judge. Action to recover tbe balance due upon a lease. Tbe cause was tried by tbe court. Facts were found in effect as follows: October 25, 1892, under a written lease, tbe relation of landlord and tenant was in form created between plaintiff and defendants in respect to certain real estate in tbe city of Milwaukee. Plaintiff’s son assumed authority to represent bim in the matter. Tbe father was in a sanitarium and the son bad charge of bis business. The term of tbe lease was five years. Defendants were…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe following opinion was filed May 29, 1903:
Maeshall, J.
Appellant challenges tbe finding that Mrs. Peege signed tbe lease to benefit her husband and to aid him to obtain a place in which to do business. We do not deem that material since it appears that she at least obtained an equitable right to an undivided one-half interest in tbe estate for years by tbe lease, a valuable property right, which, under the statutes (secs. 2342, 2343, Stats. 1898), she bad a right to obtain and agree to pay for regardless of any fact found by tbe coufct, as tbe following will show.
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