Murray v. McGarigle
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. This was an action for injuries to the plaintiff caused by a conspiracy of the defendants. The complaint is very long, and difficult to condense and yet clearly present the points taken by counsel and decided by the court.
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APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. This was an action for injuries to the plaintiff caused by a conspiracy of the defendants. The complaint is very long, and difficult to condense and yet clearly present the points taken by counsel and decided by the court. It charges, in substance, that the defendants Buell, Benjamin and Swan and others formed themselves into a coal association for the purpose of controlling and monopolizing the entire sale and delivery of coal in the city of Milwaukee, and preventing competition and fixing uniform prices at which it should be sold; that the…
1Opinion of the CourtOrton, J.
The complaint in this action is very long, and yet perhaps no longer than necessary in such a case, and the defendants are numerous, and each defendant appears by his own separate counsel, to demur, or strike out, or for some other purpose. The great skill and ability of the numerous counsel employed in making each his own assault upon the complaint have made a voluminous record upon this appeal, and one (as might have been expected) very much involved and confused, and very intricate and difficult to consider and dispose of in an opinion of reasonable length. To copy, or even abstract, the…
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