Lucas v. Sheridan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Fond du Lac county: Michael Kirwah, Circuit Judge. This is an action for the wrongful and unlawful taking from the possession of the plaintiff, October 8, 1901, and carrying away and converting to their own use, of certain personal property described, of the alleged value of $550, for which amount the plaintiff claims damages and prays judgment.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Fond du Lac county: Michael Kirwah, Circuit Judge. This is an action for the wrongful and unlawful taking from the possession of the plaintiff, October 8, 1901, and carrying away and converting to their own use, of certain personal property described, of the alleged value of $550, for which amount the plaintiff claims damages and prays judgment. It appears from the record that on or about June 28, 1901, the plaintiff purchased from one Ed. Wheeler a certain houseboat, and upon that day obtained from him a bill of sale of the same. The complaint…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, C. J.
The houseboat mentioned is not here in controversy. Counsel for the defendants concede that after they seized the houseboat as the property of WTieeler, as mentioned, it was replevied by the plaintiff, and that eleven days after such seizure it was found to be the property of the plaintiff in this action, and so was turned over to him by the defendants. The controversy here relates entirely to the articles of personal property belonging to the plaintiff and inside of the houseboat at the time of such seizure.
*5701. Exception is taken because, in charging the jury, the-court, among other things,…
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- Thomas v. SteeleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1867
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