Newton v. Williams
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Monroe county: O. B. Wyman, Circuit Judge. On the 4th day of August, 1893, Mason A. Thayer, a banker at Sparta, Wisconsin, made an assignment to the defendant for the benefit of creditors. Thereafter one O. I. Newton, of whom the plaintiffs are successors in interest, filed a number of claims against the estate of Thayer in the assignment proceedings.
Read the full summary
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Monroe county: O. B. Wyman, Circuit Judge. On the 4th day of August, 1893, Mason A. Thayer, a banker at Sparta, Wisconsin, made an assignment to the defendant for the benefit of creditors. Thereafter one O. I. Newton, of whom the plaintiffs are successors in interest, filed a number of claims against the estate of Thayer in the assignment proceedings. Two of these claims only are in issue upon this appeal, the first being a claim for $2,445.21 for a balance alleged to be due Newton from Thayer upon account of a certain electric-light enterprise…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
Two errors were assigned by counsel for appellant, in their brief and upon the oral argument, viz.: (1) That the court erred in allowing only the sum of $1,686.66 as due the claimant, upon the electric-light contract; and {2) that the court erred in disallowing the claim for contribution upon the Withee note. We are unable, however, to review the evidence upon either of these questions, because no exceptions have been preserved in the bill of exceptions to the findings of the court. It is true that, among the papers returned by the clerk, there is a paper purporting to contain exceptions to a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Cramer v. HanafordWisconsin Supreme Court · 1881
- Wille v. BartzWisconsin Supreme Court · 1894
3Cited by17 opinions
- State v. Le PitreWashington Supreme Court · 1909
- State v. FindlingSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
- State v. RoweSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1935
- Judd v. JuddMichigan Supreme Court · 1900
- Poppe v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1952
12 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.