Gunther v. Ullrich
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Superior Court of Milwaukee County. This action was brought to recover against the defendants damages claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the alleged fraud and deceit of the defendants in respect to the location of five certain lots of land in Stanhope’s subdivision No. 2, in Milwaukee county, which were exchanged by the defendants Bing and Hannah Abraham in addition to a cash payment of $1,500, for a stock of goods owned by the…
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APPEAL from the Superior Court of Milwaukee County. This action was brought to recover against the defendants damages claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the alleged fraud and deceit of the defendants in respect to the location of five certain lots of land in Stanhope’s subdivision No. 2, in Milwaukee county, which were exchanged by the defendants Bing and Hannah Abraham in addition to a cash payment of $1,500, for a stock of goods owned by the plaintiff, Gunther. Gunther had employed the defendant Ullrich, for a commission, to sell his stock of goods for $5,000; and…
1Opinion of the CourtPutney, J.
The finding in answer to the sixth question, owing to the manner in which the question was framed, is ambiguous arid hopelessly uncertain. No force or effect can be given to this finding, if such it may. be called, for it really finds nothing at all. The question being in the alternative, the affirmative answer may be applied as fairly to the innocent act of taking out the plaintiff to see the lots proposed to be conveyed as to the fraudulent and reprehensible act of knowingly pointing out to him the wrong *227lots. This question and answer must therefore be disregarded, and the question to be…
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