Rosenberg v. McKinney
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlte circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeRen T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff sued on a note dated May 24, 1905, due in 120 days, for $1,000, which was dply indorsed to him and of which he claimed to he an innocent holder for value in due course.
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Appeal from a judgment of tlte circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeRen T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff sued on a note dated May 24, 1905, due in 120 days, for $1,000, which was dply indorsed to him and of which he claimed to he an innocent holder for value in due course. Defendant set up that the note was given for certain mining stock of the Standard Lead & Zinc Smelting & Mining Company, for which he was induced to pay $1,000 in money and to give his four $1,000 notes by fraudulent representations of one Davidor, an officer of the company. The-answer also set up by way of…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
1. The trial and record in this case were confused and amplified by a tremendous amount of utterly irrelevant testimony and evidence, much of it so inadmissible that it was an abuse to occupy the court therewith; but, almost incidentally, a small amount of undisputed evidence, mainly from the defendant himself, appears in the record which we deem wholly conclusive of the rights of the parties upon the cause of action presented by the complaint. The cause of action is on a note given for part of the purchase price of a quantity of capital stock. The defense thereto is fraud on the part of the…
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- Smeesters v. SchroederWisconsin Supreme Court · 1904
- Palmer v. BanfieldWisconsin Supreme Court · 1893
- Van Trott v. WieseWisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
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