Bourda v. Jones
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wauke-sha county: James J. DicK, Circuit Judge. Action of replevin for a quantity of hotel furniture. Plaintiff leased of respondent, for the season of 1897, a summer hotel with its furnishings, agreeing to return, at the termination of the lease, as much personal property in kind and quality as that covered by the lease, and to purchase for his use any additional furniture he might need.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wauke-sha county: James J. DicK, Circuit Judge. Action of replevin for a quantity of hotel furniture. Plaintiff leased of respondent, for the season of 1897, a summer hotel with its furnishings, agreeing to return, at the termination of the lease, as much personal property in kind and quality as that covered by the lease, and to purchase for his use any additional furniture he might need. The lease was made February 27, 1897, and provided that the season should commence May 12th and end October 12th thereafter, and that before such commencement…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
It is insisted that there was no evidence showing that appellant was not the owner and entitled to recover the property he claimed; that his alleged cause of action was prima facie established, and that there was no competent evidence to the contrary. That contention is based on the idea that the list of property produced and received in evidence, said to be a correct inventory of the property in the hotel when appellant took possession in 1897, and the inventories of the property found in the hotel after appellant left it in 1898, were improperly received in evidence. In that, counsel for…
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