Hosley v. Wisconsin Odd Fellows Mutual Life Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La Crosse County. The appeal is from an order changing the venue from La Crosse to Milwaukee county upon application of defendant.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La Crosse County. The appeal is from an order changing the venue from La Crosse to Milwaukee county upon application of defendant. The defendant is a domestic insurance corporation, existing under ch. 43, P. & L. Laws of 1869, and ch. 1, Laws of 1887. On May 10, 1889, the defendant insured the life of Matthias Hosley, a resident of La Crosse, for the benefit of his wife and children, and issued to him three policies or certificates of insurance of §1,000 each. Hosley died June 25, 1892, while still a resident of La Crosse, being at the time temporarily in…
1Opinion of the Court
"WiNslow, J.
Under subd. 5, sec. 2619, E. S., the proper place of trial of this action is the county in which the defendant has its principal office or place of business, or in which the cause of action, or some part thereof, arose. That the defendant’s principal office is in Milwaukee is- undisputed; but still, if the cause of action, or some part thereof, arose in La Crosse, the place of trial should not, under the section quoted, be changed. The question, therefore, is, Did the cause of action, or any part of it, arise in La Crosse county? We think this question must be an*466swered in the…
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