Legal Opinion

Laun v. Kipp

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 13, 1914PublishedCited by 61 opinions

Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: Oscae M. Eeitz, Circuit Judge. Action to restrain enforcement of a judgment because of its being inequitable.

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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: Oscae M. Eeitz, Circuit Judge. Action to restrain enforcement of a judgment because of its being inequitable. Tbis is tbe substance of the complaint: In an action for specific performance, in tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, wherein tbe defendant herein was plaintiff, and the plaintiffs herein were defendants, it was decided, June 23, 1910, that the former contracted to sell to the latter who agreed to buy from'the former the corporate stock,, business, and property of the B. A. Eipp Company, giving therefor the…

1Opinion of the Court

Marshall, -I.

Appellants’ story as related in the complaint, indicates that they have been the victims, to their loss in the sum of $20,000 more or less, of a systematic course of deception, practiced by respondent and his attorneys, of such subtle character as to impose upon the circuit and this court; securing and maintaining an unconscionable judgment.

*354Tbe court below seems to have thought the complaint was barren of any statement warranting judicial relief from the judgment as originally inequitable, because of absence of specific allegations of fact-respecting the acts constituting the…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. United States v. ThrockmortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Marine Ins. Co. of Alexandria v. HodgsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1813
  3. Harrigan v. GilchristWisconsin Supreme Court · 1904
  4. Cowie v. StrohmeyerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1912
  5. Cohn v. . GoldmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1879

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3Cited by61 opinions

  1. Jorgensen v. JorgensenCalifornia Supreme Court · 1948
  2. Kachig v. BootheCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1971
  3. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. v. La FolletteWisconsin Supreme Court · 1965
  4. In Re Trust Created by Will of EngerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1948
  5. Hockenberry v. Cooper County State BankSupreme Court of Missouri · 1935

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