Waterman v. Hantke

The following opinion was filed March 9, 1926:

Crownhart, J.

The briefs and arguments in this case were unnecessarily prolix and involved. The case does not present very difficult questions of law or fact. The plaintiff was a merchant residing and doing business at Me-nomonie. He purchased a stock of merchandise in Minneapolis, and thereafter sold the same to Edgar F. and Arvid C. Johnson, brothers, who took the goods to Abbotsford, *3Wisconsin, and placed them in a leased building with the intention to sell the same at retail. The Johnson brothers gave plaintiff a chattel mortgage in the usual…