Court Opinion

ID: 8187646
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 23:10:21.948993+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:40:28.976858
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Cassoday, C. J.
Two courts have found that the money advanced and loaned by the plaintiff to the defendant William was not so paid nor caused to be paid as a part of the purchase price of the lot. Nevertheless, counsel for the plaintiff contends that the finding should have been the other way. It is unnecessary to determine the question here, since the whole question was at issue and fully determined in the foreclosure action. The defendant Augusta was a defendant in that action. The plaintiff’s complaint therein alleged that she had, or claimed to have, some interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises, or some part thereof, which interest or lien, if any, had accrued subsequently to the lien of the mortgage. Augusta was the wife of William at the time he gave the note and mortgage, and had been for sis years, but she did not sign the mortgage, notwithstanding it was upon their homestead; and the statute (sec. 2203) made it void without her signature, unless it was given to secure purchase money. And so, to get a lien upon such homestead prior and paramount to any lien or claim of Augusta, the complaint in the foreclosure action alleged, as mentioned in the foregoing statement, that the mortgage was given to secure the payment of part of the purchase price of the land. Augusta answered, and took issue with such allegation. After full hearing, the *233court decided in her favor, and dismissed the foreclosure action. There can be no question but that the judgment entered therein is res adjudicataand binding upon the plaintiff. Keystone L. Co. v. Kolman, 103 Wis. 300, 303, 79 N. W. 224, and cases there cited; Hart v. Moulton, 104 Wis. 349, 80 N. W. 599; South Bend C. P. Co. v. George C. Cribb Co. 105 Wis. 445, 81 N. W. 675; Huebschmann v. Cotzhausen, 107 Wis. 64, 73, 82 N. W. 720. It follows that the court properly rendered judgment in this case in favor of the defendant Augusta and against the plaintiff.
By the Court. — The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.