Quinn v. Quinn
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Ejectment, commenced in December, 1867. The opinion will show clearly the grounds upon which the respective parties rested their claims of title. The defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. [No brief on file.]
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
Aside from the tax deeds to Pixley and McCarthy, under which the defendant attempted to show title in herself, the source of the title and the claim of both parties is the same. Hatheway, or Swain, who held under him, was the common source. Hatheway’s title was founded on the sheriff’s deed and the two tax deeds of 1847 and 1848. Swain’s title was the same. Swain executed the bond to sell and *170convey the premises to James Quinn and Timothy McGrath, under which James Quinn, who was the father of the defendant, entered and continued in possession until his death. Just prior to his death (in…
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