Eberhardt v. Sanger
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Fond du Leo County. Action for damages for an unlawful taking and conversion of chattels. There was a special verdict, and also a general verdict for the plaintiff; the court refused to grant a new trial, and rendered judgment in accordance with the general verdict; and defendant appealed from the judgment. . The case is further stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The complaint alleged that the defendant unlawfully took from the possession of the plaintiff, and carried away, certain property of the plaintiff of the value of §1,800, and converted the same to his own use, and that by reason thereof the plaintiff had sustained $4,000 damages.
The answer contained a general denial, and alleged that Francis Meixner was at the time the owner of the property, and that the same was taken by defendant as sheriff of Milwaukee county upon an execution issued to him August 28, 1877, upon a judgment previously rendered against Meix-ner, subject to a chattel mortgage…
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