Bigelow v. Sickles
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Walworth County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. There was a. verdict in favor of the plaintiff, assessing her damages at $5,000, and from the judgment thereon the defendants appeal.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Walworth County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. There was a. verdict in favor of the plaintiff, assessing her damages at $5,000, and from the judgment thereon the defendants appeal. They contended, inter alia, that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of the conversations between the plaintiff and her husband, and of the conversation and conduct of the husband toward the plaintiff and others within hearing, in the absence of the defendants. R-v. M-, 21 Wis. 50; King v. Colvin, 11 R. I. 582; Cecil v. Clark, IT Md. 508. The judgment of…
1Opinion of the Court
Oiíton, J.
This action is brought by the plaintiff against the defendants for malicious prosecution in making and *100procuring to be made a complaint on oath before a justice of the peace, charging her, by the name of Olcvra, Robbins Sibldes, with having committed adultery. The defendant B. Z. Bieldes denied only the malice, want of probable cause, and intent to injure, and alleged good faith and honest belief and good reason to believe the charge was true, and that he had been so informed, and that her general reputation for chastity was bad. The. defendant ZaoJiariah Bieldes madé the same…
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