Knapp v. Schneider
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tlie Circuit Court for Racine County. Replevin by Albert M. Knapp, for a piano alleged to be Ms property, wMch defendant, as sheriff, seized on an execution against the property of Horace Knapp, plaintiff’s father. The defendant appealed from a judgment in plaintiff’s favor. The errors alleged will sufficiently appear from the opinion. to the point that the court erred in admitting the questions objected to on cross-examination, cited 1 Gf-reenl.
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APPEAL from tlie Circuit Court for Racine County. Replevin by Albert M. Knapp, for a piano alleged to be Ms property, wMch defendant, as sheriff, seized on an execution against the property of Horace Knapp, plaintiff’s father. The defendant appealed from a judgment in plaintiff’s favor. The errors alleged will sufficiently appear from the opinion. to the point that the court erred in admitting the questions objected to on cross-examination, cited 1 Gf-reenl. Ev. § 447; Congar v. Oh. <& G. U. R. R. Co., 17 Wis. 483; to the point that the evidence in regard to the listing of the property for…
1Opinion of the Court
Paiíte, J.
This was an action to recover a piano which the defendant, as sheriff, had seized on an execution against the plaintiff’s father. The question was as to its ownership. That question was submitted to the jury on proper instructions, and they found against the plaintiff.
The verdict must stand, unless some of the exceptions taken by the plaintiff to the admission of evidence oh the trial are valid.
The first exception was to the overruling of an objection to questions put to the plaintiff on cross-examination. It is said that these questions, the object of which was to show the…
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