Hazleton v. Union Bank of Columbus
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Jefferson County. The complaint, after alleging the death of Walter Buchanan, the appointment of plaintiff as administrator of his estate, and the corporate character of the defendant, is as follows: “That on or about the 20th day of August [1865], the said Walter Buchanan deposited with defendant, The Union Banlc of Columbus, twenty-five hundred dollars, and left the same with the defendant, and that the said Walter Buchanan left the said…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Jefferson County. The complaint, after alleging the death of Walter Buchanan, the appointment of plaintiff as administrator of his estate, and the corporate character of the defendant, is as follows: “That on or about the 20th day of August [1865], the said Walter Buchanan deposited with defendant, The Union Banlc of Columbus, twenty-five hundred dollars, and left the same with the defendant, and that the said Walter Buchanan left the said sum of money in the said bank and with the said defendant when he died as aforesaid. That before the commencement of tbis…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed at the June term, 1872.
LyoN, J.
I. The counsel for the plaintiff claims that the answer contains no sufficient denial that Walter Buchanan, the plaintiff’s intestate, deposited with the defendant $2,500 as charged in the complaint, and no averment that the money deposited belonged to Mrs'. Gardner and not to Buchanan; and that the genuineness of the endorsement of the certificate of deposit is the only issue made by the pleading.
On the other hand, it is contended on behalf of the defendant, that the complaint fails to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause…
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