Ford v. Smith
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action for damages for the conversion hy defendant to his own use of certain pine logs, alleged to have been the property of the estate of William E Ford, the plaintiffs’ intestate, and to the possession of which plaintiffs claimed to be entitled as administratrix and administrator.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action for damages for the conversion hy defendant to his own use of certain pine logs, alleged to have been the property of the estate of William E Ford, the plaintiffs’ intestate, and to the possession of which plaintiffs claimed to be entitled as administratrix and administrator. The defendant as sheriff, levied upon and sold the logs as the property of one Imus (the father of the plaintiff Mrs. Ford) under an execution against said Imus. After plaintiffs’ evidence was in, defendant asked for a nonsuit, which was refused. The court gave…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
The logs in controversy were cut upon land claimed by the plaintiffs to have belonged to the estate of their intestate, William E. Ford, and which they as the administrators claimed the right to enter upon and control. The logs were cut by their direction, or by the direction of one of them, the plaintiff Mrs. E. A. Ford, the administratrix, under such claim asserted in good faith. The witness Imus testified that the logs belonged to the estate. There was no testimony disproving or tending to disprove the claim thus made on the part of the plaintiffs. There was no testimony proving or tending…
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