Carey v. Dyer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for Grant oounty: Geo. ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. This action was commenced June 6, 1896, for unlawfully-taking from the possession of the plaintiff the goods and chattels described, of which the plaintiff -was then, and for .a long time prior thereto had been, the owner and in the rightful possession, of the value of $814.29, and converting the same to his own use, to the plaintiff’s damage in the sum named, and also for…
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Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for Grant oounty: Geo. ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. This action was commenced June 6, 1896, for unlawfully-taking from the possession of the plaintiff the goods and chattels described, of which the plaintiff -was then, and for .a long time prior thereto had been, the owner and in the rightful possession, of the value of $814.29, and converting the same to his own use, to the plaintiff’s damage in the sum named, and also for unlawfully taking from the possession of the plaintiff certain other goods and chattels described, of which goods the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Oassodat, O. J.
It is undisputed that for many years prior to May 25, 1896, F. L. Greer had been running a general ■store at Bloomington, where he resided. That the value of that stock at that time was about $15,000. That for over *558a year be bad also owned a stock of goods at Lancaster, in tbe same county, wbicb bad, during that time, been conducted by bis brother-in-law, James McQcnigal, and wife; that tbe value of that stock of goods at that time, as per inventory then taken, was $2,040. That tbe plaintiff is a farmer, and tbe brother-in-law of Greer, and had been in the habit for many years…
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