Little v. Staples
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Oroix county: E. B. Bundy, Circuit Judge. Action to recover of the defendants as copartners, $913.31, alleged to have been collected by defendants for plaintiff as and for dividends on fifteen shares of corporation stock, together with the interest on such sum from the time so collected. None of the defendants were served or appeared in the action, except Isaac Staples.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Oroix county: E. B. Bundy, Circuit Judge. Action to recover of the defendants as copartners, $913.31, alleged to have been collected by defendants for plaintiff as and for dividends on fifteen shares of corporation stock, together with the interest on such sum from the time so collected. None of the defendants were served or appeared in the action, except Isaac Staples. He answered denying the allegations of the complaint as to the partnership, also the allegations in respect to the agreement to collect dividends for plaintiff, and that…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 10, 1897:
MaRshall, J.
The complaint sufficiently alleges as facts, -that in 1872 defendants were copartners under the firm name of Hersey, Staples & Bean; that plaintiff had a running account with such firm; that he delivered to the firm a certificate for fifteen shares of corporation stock, under an agreement that the dividends paid thereon should be collected and credited to the plaintiff on the books of the firm, in the running account between the parties; that several dividends were declared by the corporation and were collected on such stock (the…
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