Knapp v. White
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Replevin, by Ojiarles and Sheldon Knapp against Adelaide White and Wm. White, Sen. The complaint avers that, on the 26th of March, 1813, plaintiffs purchased the property at a sheriff’s sale, made under an execution upon a judgment in their favor, in an action wherein they were plaintiffs and Wm.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Replevin, by Ojiarles and Sheldon Knapp against Adelaide White and Wm. White, Sen. The complaint avers that, on the 26th of March, 1813, plaintiffs purchased the property at a sheriff’s sale, made under an execution upon a judgment in their favor, in an action wherein they were plaintiffs and Wm. White, Sen., was defendant; that at the time of the levy of said execution, the property belonged exclusively to White, Sen., and no other person had any interest therein; that the sheriff claimed to have an execution in his hands issued out of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed at the January term, 1875.
Ryan, C. J.
The appellants were creditors at large of the respondent William White, Sen., long before the sale of the latter to William White, Jr., and so remained until they became judgment creditors for the same debt. During most of that time, the respondent White, Sen., was their sole debtor. For some time in 1872, after the sale, White, Jr., was a joint debtor with him to the appellants, by being bis surety on a note for the debt. But, during that'time, as well as before and after, the appellants were creditors of the the respondent…
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