Estes v. Crosby
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court' for Oneida county. A. H. Reid, Circuit Judge. ' Both defendants in 1914, and for some time before, were engaged in the business of dealing in real estate in Oneida county, 'defendant Hume having his office in the city of Milwaukee and defendant Crosby at Rhinelander in Oneida county. The plaintiffs, husband and wife, were residents of the state of Missouri.
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Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court' for Oneida county. A. H. Reid, Circuit Judge. ' Both defendants in 1914, and for some time before, were engaged in the business of dealing in real estate in Oneida county, 'defendant Hume having his office in the city of Milwaukee and defendant Crosby at Rhinelander in Oneida county. The plaintiffs, husband and wife, were residents of the state of Missouri. Mrs. Estes in August, 1914, came to Rhinelander for the purpose of investigating a proposed purchase by them of a farm in Wisconsin. She called upon the defendant Crosby, knowing him to be in…
1Opinion of the Court
The following.opinion was filed January 13, 1920:
Eschweiler, J.
The appellant Hume assigns as error: (1) that there is no evidence to warrant the instruction to the jury given by the court to the effect that he, Hume, was the agent of the owner, Shepard; (2) or that Crosby was such agent; (3) that there is no cause of action shown as against1 him, Flume; (4) that the representation made by Crosby that the bottom price of this property was $4,000 was not within the scope of Crosby’s employment; (5) that there is no ground for liability against the agent Cro.sby and therefore there can be none…
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