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ESTATE OF SCHERER: STANLEY C. HANKS COMPANY and another, Appellants, vs. SCHERER, Respondent.

Case ruled by Stanley C. Hanks Co. v. Scherer, ante, p. 148.

The essential facts are agreed upon by the parties, and the stipulation reads:

"1. On January 18, 1933, Philip C. Scherer died testate and left a will providing that his widow, Mary Scherer, should have a life estate with a remainder over to his son, George Scherer. . . .

"2. Probate of his estate was had in the county court of Dane county and on July 8, 1935, a final judgment was entered therein, providing for a distribution of the property to the Madison Bank Trust Company, trustee, under the terms of said will. . . .

"3. On July 23, 1938, pursuant to the petition of the Stanley C. Hanks Company, appellant herein, an order directing the application of the distributive share of George Scherer to a certain judgment held by the said Stanley C. Hanks Company was entered herein. . . .

"4. Mary Scherer, the life tenant, died July 8, 1950.

"5. On September 22, 1950, the circuit court for Dane county entered an order discharging the judgment upon which the citation order of July 23, 1938, was based. . . .

"6. On November 9, 1950, the county court of Dane county entered an order rescinding the order of July 23, 1938. . . .

"7. On November 10, 1950, the appellants, Stanley C. Hanks Company and D. J. Benedict, as owner of the judgment, appealed from the order of the county court dated November 9th. . . ."

FAIRCHILD, J.

The appeal from the decision of the county court brings the same set of circumstances as those considered in the appeal in the case of Stanley C. Hanks Co. v. Scherer, ante, p. 148, 47 N.W.2d 905. The facts involved are that in a proceeding under sec. 318.08, Stats. 1937, upon petition of the Stanley C. Hanks Company, there was, on the 23d day of July, 1938, granted an order in favor of the petitioner directing "that said remainder interest of George Scherer in said trust held by the Madison Trust Company be and hereby is declared subject to the lien of said judgment;" and directing the trustee to retain the funds until the satisfaction of the judgment.

The judgment having expired by reason of lapse of time, the county court, on motion of respondent, did, on the 9th day of November, 1950, grant the following order:

"It is hereby ordered, adjudged, and determined, that the judgment entered in the circuit court for Dane county, Wisconsin, on the 3d day of March, 1928, at 10:30 o'clock a.m., in favor of the Stanley C. Hanks Company and against George Scherer in the amount of $738.50 damages plus costs in the sum of $40.75, being in the total sum of $779.25, and said judgment being docketed in the office of the clerk of circuit court for Dane county, Wisconsin, in judgment docket `R,' page 271, having now been adjudged and determined by an order of the circuit court for Dane county, Wisconsin, dated on the 22d day of September, 1950, as being discharged, outlawed, satisfied, extinguished, and rendered wholly ineffectual and the debt predicated thereon having been extinguished, that the lien of said former judgment is hereby extinguished, discharged, and rendered a nullity as of the date hereof.

"It is further ordered, adjudged, and determined, that the previous order of this court wherein this court modified the final judgment so as to provide: `That said remainder interest of George Scherer in said trust held by the Madison Trust Company be and hereby is declared subject to the lien of said judgment, and that the said Madison Trust Company shall make no distribution of the principal of said trust fund without first satisfying or procuring the satisfaction of said judgment,' is hereby canceled and rescinded and supplemented in its entirety by the provisions of this order.

"It is further ordered, adjudged, and determined, that no execution having been issued upon the afore-mentioned judgment at any time since the rendition thereof, and no proceedings having been had in this court for the enforcement of the lien during the period of the life of the judgment, and the judgment itself having been now nullified, all proceedings in this court predicated upon said judgment and any lien or liens based thereon or any orders predicated thereon are hereby nullified, extinguished, and declared for naught."

The questions here involved are subject to the rule of the case of Stanley C. Hanks Co. v. Scherer, supra.

By the Court. — Order affirmed.

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ESTATE OF SCHERER
(May 8, 1951)