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22 Wis. 565

Goodel v. Bennett

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided February 15, 1868

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1868-02-15

Ejectment, for a part of “ lot one hundred and thirty-one of the Stoekbi-idge Reservation, in the town of Stock-bridge.” The plaintiff’s evidence was as follows: 1. Patent for said lot, from the United States to one Jacob Davids, dated October 8, 1860. 2. Deed of the premises from the defendant to one Howe, December 6, 1851, duly recorded; containing covenants of seizin and wai-ranty and against incumbx-ances. 3. Warranty deed from Howe to one Denell, June 13, 1853. 4.

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Decided 1868-02-15

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Dixon, C. J.

¶1There can be no question but that the title, whatever it was, of John FT.- Chicks, deceased, passed to the United States under the treaty of February 5, 1856. He was a party to the treaty, and signed and sealed the same. Treaty with the Stockbridges and Maumees, 11 U. S. Statutes at Large, 664, (Art. 1), and 668. Chicks having, then, no title at the time of his decease, the plaintiff took nothing by his deed from the administrator of Chicks’ estate. The plaintiff was properly nonsuited on this ground. The fact that Chicks, at the time of the treaty, claimed title through divers mesne conveyances from the defendant in this action, who had conveyed the land with covenants of seizin and warranty, and the further fact that the defendant now again claims title to the land through the United States under a patent issued since the making of the treaty, do not affect the question. They constitute no ground of estoppel against the defendant. The covenants ran with the land to the United States, when it was ceded by Chicks under the treaty, and have thence passed by conveyance of it back to the defendant, and are thus extinguished. The plaintiff) *568by Raving taken a conveyance from an intermediate grantee after suck grantee bad parted with his title, is in no condition to insist upon an estoppel, or that the subsequently acquired title of the defendant enures to his benefit.

¶2By the Court, — Judgment affirmed.

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