Lenz v. Brown
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Ooonto County. Plaintiffs filed, in the probate court of said county, an account against the estate of Lydia Ann Hall, deceased, for groceries, etc., furnished to said deceased, or to her agents, upon her credit, between February 29 and April 17, 1873. The whole amount of the debit charges in said account was $699.23; and there was a credit, under date March 27, “by draft on Blanchard, Borland & Co., on account of lumber,” for $306.03,…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Ooonto County. Plaintiffs filed, in the probate court of said county, an account against the estate of Lydia Ann Hall, deceased, for groceries, etc., furnished to said deceased, or to her agents, upon her credit, between February 29 and April 17, 1873. The whole amount of the debit charges in said account was $699.23; and there was a credit, under date March 27, “by draft on Blanchard, Borland & Co., on account of lumber,” for $306.03, leaving the balance claimed $393.20. The items charged prior to March 29, 1873, amount to $242.73; those charged on or 'after…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The undisputed evidence shows that E. L. Hall *182was tbe agent of Lydia Ann Hall in operating tbe saw-mill, and in carrying on tbe lumber business at Oconto, in the fall and winter of 1872-8, at the time the contract for supplies was made with the plaintiffs. The title of this mill was in Mrs. Hall, who had assumed the indebtedness of R. L. Stall due the plaintiffs, and had mortgaged her property for its payment. It appears that she had entered into a contract with the plaintiffs in November, 1872, for the payment of this indebtedness by the proceeds of the mill. R. L. Hall at this time was…
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