Becker v. Holm
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: "W". E. Bailey, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by the plaintiff, as assignee of one Talbot in a voluntary assignment for the benefit of his •creditors, to recover $2,000, the purchase price of a steamboat alleged to have been sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendants, JEoTm, Smith, and Gcurrison, November 18, 1892. The answers of the several defendants were, in substance, a denial of the…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: "W". E. Bailey, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by the plaintiff, as assignee of one Talbot in a voluntary assignment for the benefit of his •creditors, to recover $2,000, the purchase price of a steamboat alleged to have been sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendants, JEoTm, Smith, and Gcurrison, November 18, 1892. The answers of the several defendants were, in substance, a denial of the allegations of the complaint. Upon trial before a jury, at the close of the plaintiff’s testimony the court gave judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNBY, J.
1. We think that there was sufficient evidence to require tbe submission of tbe case to tbe jury, certainly as to tbe defendants Smith and Garrison. Whether there was sufficient evidence as against tbe defendant Holm it is not necessary now to consider, for tbe nonsuit was granted as to all tbe defendants and was erroneous if tbe case ought to have been submitted to tbe jury as to either of them. Gerhardt v. Swaty, 51 Wis. 24. Tbe points principally considered at tbe argument were: (1) Whether tbe agreement of sale was void for uncertainty; and it was insisted that there was no such language…
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