Treat v. Hiles
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Waulcesha County. This action was brought by Ourtiss M. 'Treat and Melvin A. Hoyt against George Miles to recover damages for the breach of an alleged contract between the parties to open and work a certain stone quarry on joint account.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Waulcesha County. This action was brought by Ourtiss M. 'Treat and Melvin A. Hoyt against George Miles to recover damages for the breach of an alleged contract between the parties to open and work a certain stone quarry on joint account. The case was here in 1887, on an appeal from an order sustaining a general demurrer to the complaint, and is reported in 68 Wis. 344. The opinion by Mr. Justice OetoN contains a statement of the alleged contract, as set out in the complaint, to which should be added that it is further averred in the complaint that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 15, 1891:
LyoN, J.
The testimony is very voluminous, filling (including exhibits) nearly 500 pages of the printed case. It is not materially different from the testimony given on the former trial. Much of it is the same. It cannot reasonably be expected that we should make any extended statement or go into any analysis or elaborate discussion of it. It has been examined with care, and it must suffice that its scope and character are herein stated in a very general way.
On the trial, as on the former trial, the testimony was addressed to the questions of…
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- Treat v. HilesWisconsin Supreme Court · 1889
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