Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1878

Daniels v. Bailey

Daniels v. Bailey
Wisconsin Supreme Court · Decided January 15, 1878 · Ryan
43 Wis. 566

Counsel

The cause was submitted on briefs of Raymond dc Haseltine for the appellant, and on that of Jones d? Sanborn for the respondent.

Daniels v. Bailey

Opinion of the Court

Ryan, C. J.

Before it was amended, the complaint was for the consideration of a sale of the respondent’s interest in the standing timber upon certain land. As amended after verdict, it is for the consideration of a sale of the respondent’s interest in a contract of sale of the standing timber. Whether of the one or of the other, the sale proved was by parol, wholly unexecuted; was equally the sale of an interest in land, *570and void under the statute of frauds. Strasson v. Montgomery, 32 Wis., 52; Young v. Lego, 36 id., 394; Richardson v. Johnsen, 41 id., 100.

By the Court. — The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded to the court below for further proceedings according to law.

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