889.242 How, when witnesses dead. If any grantor residing in this state refuses to acknowledge the grantor's conveyance and all the subscribing witnesses thereto are dead or out of the state, it may be proved before any court of record by proving the handwriting of the grantor or of any subscribing witness, upon the court first summoning the grantor to hear the testimony as provided in s. 889.241.
History: 1993 a. 486.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 889 - Documentary and record evidence.
889.01 - Publication by state as evidence of laws.
889.02 - Publication by other states and United States as evidence of laws and regulations.
889.03 - Copies certified by state law librarian; fees.
889.04 - County and municipal ordinances.
889.05 - Common law of sister states.
889.07 - Court records and copies.
889.08 - Copies, how certified, presumptions.
889.09 - Certification of nonfiling.
889.10 - Official certificates, etc.
889.11 - Reporter's transcript as evidence.
889.13 - Transcript of municipal court records.
889.14 - Proof of unrecorded proceedings before municipal judge.
889.15 - Proceedings of other courts as evidence.
889.16 - Judgment of foreign justice.
889.17 - Conveyances and record thereof.
889.19 - Pedigree recitals in deeds and wills.
889.23 - Acknowledged writings, evidence.
889.24 - Conveyance, how proved.
889.241 - How made when grantor refuses.
889.242 - How, when witnesses dead.
889.243 - Witnesses, how subpoenaed; neglect to appear.
889.29 - Photographic copies of business records as evidence.