Taylor v. Tigerton Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Shawano county: Johu GoodlaNd, Circuit Judge. Action for conversion of certain logs. In and prior to the year 1904 the plaintiffs had been merchants dealing in supplies for lumbering, had transactions with a firm of Peters & McNinch, who owned a sawmill and were also engaged in general lumbering, selling them supplies and buying logs of them, of which some remnants remained in the mill yard at the times here involved.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Shawano county: Johu GoodlaNd, Circuit Judge. Action for conversion of certain logs. In and prior to the year 1904 the plaintiffs had been merchants dealing in supplies for lumbering, had transactions with a firm of Peters & McNinch, who owned a sawmill and were also engaged in general lumbering, selling them supplies and buying logs of them, of which some remnants remained in the mill yard at the times here involved. In November, 1904, George Mc-Ninch, one of the firm, was engaged in getting out logs on his own homestead, and applied to the…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
Tbe trial of this case, as also tbe record in this court, is very confused and complicated. Tbe errors assigned are forty-seven in number and go to multitudinous details of tbe trial. Tbe situation would perhaps be simplified by a brief statement of tbe issues as we extract them from this record. Those issues are: Eirst, did tbe plaintiffs purchase of George McNinch, for agreed price, namely, a carload of feed, certain ascertained logs cut by him on bis own land, or did they sell that carload of feed upon tbe credit of Peters & McNinch? -Second, if there was such purchase of tbe logs, was…
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