Ball v. McGeoch
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The amended complaint alleges, in effect, that at the times hereinafter mentioned the defendants were copart-ners, doing business on the board of trade in Chicago, under the firm name, and style- of McGeoch, Everingham & Co.; that the plaintiff during the same times was engaged in business es a factor and commission merchant at the same place, on said board of trade; that on and between June 9 and 15, 1883, at the special…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The amended complaint alleges, in effect, that at the times hereinafter mentioned the defendants were copart-ners, doing business on the board of trade in Chicago, under the firm name, and style- of McGeoch, Everingham & Co.; that the plaintiff during the same times was engaged in business es a factor and commission merchant at the same place, on said board of trade; that on and between June 9 and 15, 1883, at the special instance and request of said firm, this plaintiff did purchase in his own name, but for said firm and at their order,…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The pleadings, stipulation, documentary evidence, rulings of the court, and offers of testimony on the part of the plaintiff are voluminous, but are sufficiently indicated in the foregoing statement. The claim of the plaintiff is for a balance due for ’ a liability incurred and money advanced at the request of the defendants and for *170their use and benefit, in June, 1883, in the purchase and sale of lard on the board of trade in Chicago. The principal defense alleged is, in effect, an accord in writing, whereby the plaintiff and other creditors of the defendants upon the board of trade agreed…
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