Bragg v. Gaynor
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lae County. This is an action in the nature of a creditors’ suit under the statute (S. & B. Ann.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lae County. This is an action in the nature of a creditors’ suit under the statute (S. & B. Ann. Stats, sec. 3029), after the return of an execution on a judgment unsatisfied, brought in the circuit court for Fond du Lac county by the plaintiff as assignee of a judgment rendered in favor of Edmund Blew-ett and Patriek Gaynor against James Gaynor in the circuit court for Winnebago county, March 31, 1890, for $8,114.50, damages and costs. A history of previous litigation which resulted in the judgment will be found in 77 Wis. 378, and of a subsequent…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNey, J.
1. The contention that the affidavits used to obtain the orders for service of summons and complaint on the defendants James Gaynor and Witherwax, under S. & B. Ann. Stats, secs. 2639, 2640, are void because the respective affidavits used to obtain them do not describe any property of the defendant within the state or in which he had any interest tobe affected by the action, cannot be sustained. The case of ' Winner v. Fitzgerald, 19 Wis. 393, arose under sec. 10, ch. 124, R. S. 1858, when the grounds for making the order were required to appear wholly by affidavit. The present statute (S. &…
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