Jones v. Citizens' Savings & Trust Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: George Clementson, Judge. Prior to January, 1911, the plaintiffs, copartners and attorneys at law in Chicago, Illinois, principally engaged in patent litigation, had been employed by defendant Maurice H. Glauber and his brother, Joseph H. Glauber, now deceased, the two being then and thereafter copartners under the firm name of Glauber Brass Manufacturing Company, at Cleveland, Ohio, to conduct litigation…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: George Clementson, Judge. Prior to January, 1911, the plaintiffs, copartners and attorneys at law in Chicago, Illinois, principally engaged in patent litigation, had been employed by defendant Maurice H. Glauber and his brother, Joseph H. Glauber, now deceased, the two being then and thereafter copartners under the firm name of Glauber Brass Manufacturing Company, at Cleveland, Ohio, to conduct litigation against a firm in Illinois which it was claimed was infringing on the rights secured by letters patent issued to J. H.…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The appealing defendants in this action contend substantially as follows:(1) The court below should not have entertained jurisdiction of this action because, it being upon a contract sought to be enforced after the death of one of the parties thereto, Joseph H. Glauber, the remedy, so far as his estate was concerned, must be confined to the filing of a claim in the probate proceedings in Cleveland.(2) That, being in the nature of a claim against the estate of Joseph H. Glauber and the defendant Maurice H. Glauber, it was such a joint liability that, the court below having under the first…
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