Loveland v. Hanson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a-judgment of the- circuit court for Columbia county: Chester A. Fowler, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on promissory notes. The plaintiffs are copartners engaged in the business of selling a copyrighted advertising campaign, with offices at Iowa City, Iowa. The Hanson Company is a corporation engaged in the general mercantile business at Rio, Wisconsin. L. A. Hanson was a director of the company and a clerk in its store..
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Appeal from a-judgment of the- circuit court for Columbia county: Chester A. Fowler, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on promissory notes. The plaintiffs are copartners engaged in the business of selling a copyrighted advertising campaign, with offices at Iowa City, Iowa. The Hanson Company is a corporation engaged in the general mercantile business at Rio, Wisconsin. L. A. Hanson was a director of the company and a clerk in its store.. He had power to make purchases of goods required to replenish the stock- in trade, but further than that he had no power to bind the company or pledge its…
1Opinion of the CourtOwen, J.
The principal argument made by the appellants is that L. A. Hanson was not justified in relying upon representations made by the agent of the plaintiffs that the directors of the company had all consented to his signing the notes. An examination of .the record convinces us that this was a jury question. True, the specific question of whether L. A. Hanson was justified in relying upon such representations was not submitted to the jury. But in submitting the fourth question to the jury the trial judge said:
“To be induced by a representation one must rely upon it, and a person is not justified…
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