Lowe v. Ring
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal fr.om a judgment of the circuit court for Clark county: A. J. Yinje, Judge. This action was commenced December 31, 1897, and was brought to recover upon six promissory notes executed by the defendant at various times to the Clark County Rank, a banking corporation located at Neillsville, Wisconsin.
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Appeal fr.om a judgment of the circuit court for Clark county: A. J. Yinje, Judge. This action was commenced December 31, 1897, and was brought to recover upon six promissory notes executed by the defendant at various times to the Clark County Rank, a banking corporation located at Neillsville, Wisconsin. The defendant is an attorney at law who has been practicing at Neillsville for more than “twenty-five years, and by his answer he admitted the execution of the notes sued upon, but pleaded as a defense to all except two of said notes the statute of limitations. As to the two notes last…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
The trial court held, as a matter of law, that the defendant could not be allowed anything (1) for the services in the action against Christy, except the services before the referee, because the claim was outlawed; (2) for services in the action against the Kirklands, for the same reason; (3) for services as administrator in the settlement of the Archer estate, because no valid contract to pay for the same was shown; and (4) for services upon the appeal in the case of Hill against the Archer estate, because the bank never authorized him to defend that case in any proper manner. Proper…
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- Mygatt v. . WilcoxNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Bartlett v. Mystic River Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Davis v. SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1875
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- Lowe v. RingWisconsin Supreme Court · 1913
- Lowe v. RingWisconsin Supreme Court · 1902
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