Button v. Hoffman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jackson County. Replevin. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion. The defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtOetoN, J.
This is an action of replevin in which the title of the plaintiff to the property was put in issue by the answer.
*21In bis instructions to the jury the learned judge of the circuit court said: “ I think the testimony is that the plaintiff had the title to the property.” The evidence of the plaintiff’s title was that the property belonged to a corporation known as “ The Hayden & Smith Manufacturing Company,” and that he purchased and became the sole owner of all of the capital stock of said corporation. As the plaintiff in his testimony expressed it, “ I bought all the stock. I own all the stock…
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