Court Opinion

ID: 6602467
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 20:08:58.532529+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:58:03.935304
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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.