Mehlberg v. Tisher
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tlie Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action, commenced in a justice’s court, for labor performed by the plaintiff for the defendants Rich, Hoxie and Tisher, upon certain logs, and to enforce a lien upon the logs. The justice rendered a judgment against Tisher alone for the amount claimed, and adjudged that plaintiff had a lien upon the logs for that amount. Tisher appealed to the circuit court, where the cause was tried de novo.
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APPEAL from tlie Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action, commenced in a justice’s court, for labor performed by the plaintiff for the defendants Rich, Hoxie and Tisher, upon certain logs, and to enforce a lien upon the logs. The justice rendered a judgment against Tisher alone for the amount claimed, and adjudged that plaintiff had a lien upon the logs for that amount. Tisher appealed to the circuit court, where the cause was tried de novo. Plaintiff testified that he worked upon the logs in question, for Tisher, under a contract. “I settled with Tisher when I got through; he owed me…
1Opinion of the Court
Dixon, O. J.
Tbe written instrument drawn up, signed and delivered by tbe defendant Tisher to tbe plaintiff, and directed to Hoxie and Rich, requesting them to pay to tbe plaintiff tbe sum of sixty-nine dol*609lars and twenty cents, and charge to Tisher, the drawer, was a bill of exchange. It is not essential to the validity of a bill of exchange that it should be made payable to order, or bearer, or have the words “ valne received,” or be payable at a day certain, or at any particular place. Kendall v. Galvin, 15 Maine, 131; Arnold v. Sprague, 34 Vt. 402; and Dayton v. Trull, 23 Wend. 345, and…
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