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85 Wis. 119

Frede v. Pflugradt

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided May 2, 1893

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1893-05-02

Action in equity for the cancellation and redelivery of a deed of land. Plaintiff was the wife of Ernest Frede. She owned lot 28, block 17, Ludington’s subdivision, Milwaukee. Her husband owned lot 27 in the same subdivision. On the 15th of September, 1890, Ernest Frede contracted with defendant Pfiugradt to build á house according to certain plans on lot 27, and on the 1st of December following convey the lot, with the house completed, to Pfiugradt.

Relies on Blanchard v. McDougal

Decided 1893-05-02

Winslow, J.

¶1There being no bill of exceptions, the evidence is not before us, and the findings of the court must be accepted as verities. By them it appears that after the execution and delivery of the deed of lot 28 as collateral security only, the defendant Pflugradt, by oral agreement, purchased the lot of plaintiff, paid full consideration therefor, and went into possession thereof. These facts clearly entitled defendant Pflugradt to a specific performance of *122the oral contract to convey. Blanchard v. McDougal, 6 Wis. 167. The plaintiff contends that these facts are only available to defendant in an action brought to compel specific performance, or under a counterclaim for that purpose in the present action. The position is not tenable. The plaintiff has come into equity, asking that her deed to defendant be canceled and the defendant’s title be compulsorily "released to her. Surely equity will not do this when it appears that the defendant is clearly entitled to a conveyance of the premises from the plaintiff. It might have been better to have pleaded the facts as a counterclaim, and prayed for affirmative relief, but the failure so to do does not prejudice plaintiff, nor will it suffice to compel a court of equity to do that which is monstrously inequitable. The statement of the proposition would seem to be its own answer.

¶2By the Oowrt.— Judgment affirmed.

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