Town of Scott v. Tow of Clayton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Crawford, County. Action to recover the sum of $20.72, with interest, for medical attendance and other relief furnished by the plaintiff towm in September*, 1878, to Mrs. Sarah Enyart and her three infant children, who are alleged to have been paupers residing and having a settlement in the defendant town, and to have been found in a destitute and suffering condition in the plaintiff town.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Crawford, County. Action to recover the sum of $20.72, with interest, for medical attendance and other relief furnished by the plaintiff towm in September*, 1878, to Mrs. Sarah Enyart and her three infant children, who are alleged to have been paupers residing and having a settlement in the defendant town, and to have been found in a destitute and suffering condition in the plaintiff town. A former appeal herein is reported in 51 "Wis., 185-196.. On the second trial a judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
Quite a number of exceptions were taken on the trial of this cause to the rulings of the trial court in admitting or excluding evidence, which are relied on here as *500a ground for reversing the judgment. But we shall not stop to inquire whether these exceptions are well founded or not, for we are satisfied there should be a new trial on account of some things in the charge which were excepted to, and which wore calculated to prejudice the case of the plaintiff in the minds of the jury. In submitting the case, the learned circuit judge made some remarks on the decision of this court on the…
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