Hendricks v. Goodrich
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Bock County. Action to recover $100 wbicb tbe plaintiff claimed to have paid tbe defendant under a mistake of fact. Tbe plaintiff bad contracted with tbe defendant for a tract of land, and bad, at different times during four years, made payments thereon.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Bock County. Action to recover $100 wbicb tbe plaintiff claimed to have paid tbe defendant under a mistake of fact. Tbe plaintiff bad contracted with tbe defendant for a tract of land, and bad, at different times during four years, made payments thereon. In October, 1859, it was agreed between tbe parties, that tbe defendant should take, in full payment of tbe balance tben due, a borse, harness and some clevises, wbicb tbe plaintiff accordingly delivered to him, and tbe contract was receipted in full as follows: “Eeceived of Jacob Hendricks one bay four year…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
It would involve a lengthy and unprofitable discussion to notice in the most cursory manner all the propositions of law embraced in the instructions which were refused, as well as those which were given, in the trial of this cause. The appellant asked the court to give some thirteen specific instructions, which were mostly refused. The court likewise gave quite a lengthy charge to the jury, which was generally excepted to. For these reasons, we shall not attempt to notice many of the questions embraced in the instructions, and which were discussed on the argument. There…
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