Sander v. Newman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for La Crosse county: A. IT. Reid, Circuit Judge. The action.was brought for an accounting of funds alleged to be in the hands of certain of the defendants and the La Crosse Land & Investment Company.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for La Crosse county: A. IT. Reid, Circuit Judge. The action.was brought for an accounting of funds alleged to be in the hands of certain of the defendants and the La Crosse Land & Investment Company. Demurrers to the amended complaint were interposed by three of the defendants upon the ground that it appears upon the face of said complaint that the cause of action was barred by the statute of limitations, sec. 4222 of the Wisconsin Statutes. The demurrers were sustained. The complaint alleges,, in substance, that defendant Gideon E. Newman, in 1910;…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed March 8, 1921:
Siebecicer, C. J.
This is an action to recover funds from the defendants Newman, Dow, Morris, and Lyons which, it is alleged, they fraudulently obtained and appropriated to their own use out of the proceeds realized on the sale of the lands described in the complaint in the manner set forth in the foregoing statement of facts. The alleged grounds of recovery are that these four defendants entered into a conspiracy to retain secret profits out of the amount paid for the lands, aggregating the sum of $24,533.71. It is alleged that they obtained the…
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