Illinois Steel Co. v. Jeka
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeREN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Action in ejectment. The complaint was in the usual form.. The defendants pleaded adverse possession under the ten and twenty years statutes. On the trial it was conceded that, plaintiff was entitled to recover unless defendants were, upon evidence establishing their defense of adverse possession.
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Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeREN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Action in ejectment. The complaint was in the usual form.. The defendants pleaded adverse possession under the ten and twenty years statutes. On the trial it was conceded that, plaintiff was entitled to recover unless defendants were, upon evidence establishing their defense of adverse possession. Such evidence tended to, if it did not conclusively, show such possession by them and those with whom they were in privity from some time in 1881 to the commencement of the action February 26, 1896,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed November 15, 1904:
MaRshall, J.
The foregoing brief statement, it is believed, brings to view all of this case necessary to an understanding of the few questions discussed in the brief of appellant’s counsel.
As we understand it, counsel do not expect the case to be examined other than sufficient to enable the court to pass upon their claims that the verdict is unsupported by evidence, which is involved in each of three assignments of error, and that the trial court erred in the admission and rejection of evidence. True, there is an assignment suggesting that…
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