Strehlow v. Pettit
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Jefferson county: John R. Bennett, Circuit Judge. On April 5, 1894, the defendant Pettit, being duly sworn and examined on oath before H. A. Porter, a justice of the peace, made complaint to the effect that the plaintiff, Laura Strehlow, did, at Ft.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Jefferson county: John R. Bennett, Circuit Judge. On April 5, 1894, the defendant Pettit, being duly sworn and examined on oath before H. A. Porter, a justice of the peace, made complaint to the effect that the plaintiff, Laura Strehlow, did, at Ft. Atkinson, Jefferson county, March 26, 1894, unlawfully and feloniously embezzle and convert to her own use seven and one quarter yards of dress lace of the value of $2.26, the goods and property of the firm of Pettit & Hoffman, of Ft. Atkinson, contrary to the- form of the statute in such case made…
1Opinion of the Court
Oassoday, O. J.
We perceive no error in admitting in evidence the letter written three or four days before the issuance of the warrant to the plaintiff by the cashier of the-bank, in behalf of the defendants, requesting her to call at the bank, or the store of the defendants, and pay an account of $2.26 at once, “and save the trouble of taking other steps to collect it.” There is sufficient evidence tending to prove that the letter was written by the authority of the defendants. The admission of evidence as to the age of the plaintiff, and that her parents were both dead, appears to have been…
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