Dunham v. Salmon
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Crawford county: Geoege ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on a joint and several promissory note signed by the defendants, twelve in number. The complaint was in the usual form. The defendants answered to this effect: The note was given to the plaintiffs in part payment for a stallion, represented to be a full-blooded registered animal and very valuable for breeding purposes.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Crawford county: Geoege ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on a joint and several promissory note signed by the defendants, twelve in number. The complaint was in the usual form. The defendants answered to this effect: The note was given to the plaintiffs in part payment for a stallion, represented to be a full-blooded registered animal and very valuable for breeding purposes. The plaintiffs warranted the stallion to be a good foal getter and to successfully breed more than sixty per cent, of the animals served. They represented that…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
The transaction under investigation in this case is of a kind now frequently occurring, as the records of the courts will show. A stallion of alleged high breeding.and great value is proposed to be sold in shares to a number of neighboring farmers for the philanthropic purpose of raising the standard of draft-horse stock in the vicinity and incidentally of making money for the owners. An agent spends weeks or months going from house to house interviewing possible purchasers, painting in glowing terms the benefits *168which must result from the venture, generally seeking to obtain subscriptions to…
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- Waterman v. Chicago & Alton RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1892
- Waupaca Electric Light & Railway Co. v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
- Matteson v. RiceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1903
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