York v. Hinkle
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Ashland County. This action was commenced against tbe defendants, A. Howard Hinlde, Willia/m H. Hinlde, Frazilc B. Foote, William H. Davis, and tbe Ashland Iron & Steel Company, for tbe purpose of rescinding and vacating tbe assignment of certain stock and conveyance of certain land, and for an accounting, etc.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Ashland County. This action was commenced against tbe defendants, A. Howard Hinlde, Willia/m H. Hinlde, Frazilc B. Foote, William H. Davis, and tbe Ashland Iron & Steel Company, for tbe purpose of rescinding and vacating tbe assignment of certain stock and conveyance of certain land, and for an accounting, etc. Tbe complaint alleges, in effect, that tbe business men and real estate owners of Ashland, in 1886, donated a furnace site and lots of the value'of over $15,000, as a bonus to the plaintiff for erecting a blast-furnace at Ashland; that the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtCassodat, J.
This action is to set aside the assignment .of stock and the conveyance of land mentioned in the foregoing statement, on the ground that they were obtained by duress. The alleged duress is to. the effect that William H. Hinkle, under the circumstances mentioned in the foregoing statement, informed the plaintiff that A. Howard Hinkle wanted his stock, and would give him for it fifty per cent, of its par value; that, if the plaintiff refused to accept, A. Howard Hinkle would take immediate legal steps to charge the company’s property with $200,000 indebtedness then due to him for the borrowed…
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