Speiser v. Merchants' Exchange Bank
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from an order of the superior court of Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Judge. Appeal from order settling accounts and awarding expenses and compensation to the receiver in the case of Bal-lin and others, as plaintiffs, against the J. & E. B. Friend Lace Importing Company and others, as defendants.
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Appeals from an order of the superior court of Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Judge. Appeal from order settling accounts and awarding expenses and compensation to the receiver in the case of Bal-lin and others, as plaintiffs, against the J. & E. B. Friend Lace Importing Company and others, as defendants. On January 16,1890, the plaintiffs Ballin & Oo., judgment creditors, commenced suit by Williams, Eriend & Bright, and EincheS, Lynde & Miller, as their attorneys, to close up the defendant corporation, and sequestrate its property, under sec. 3216, R. S. 1878. At that time the Merchants’…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The present case is so impressive an illustration that we cannot ignore the duty to make it the text for some general remarks upon a tendency at the bar, and even with courts, which promises to develop into a most serious abuse, if it has not already done so. That tendency is to look upon funds in gremio legis as not sheltered by the same rights of ownership, and not entitled to the same protection from extortionate and unreasonable charges, as if they had remained under the control and custody of their owners. Some of the demands made against such funds could be justified only upon the view…
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