Shaw v. Gilbert
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: E. W. Helms, Judge. For more than a year prior to February 1,1893, the plaintiff, Addie M. Shorn, in association with George H. Hopper, under the firm name of N. Shaw & Co., was engaged in a foundry business at Eau Claire, where was located the National Electric Manufacturing Company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of electrical machinery, dynamos, generators, and the like, involving the taking of…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: E. W. Helms, Judge. For more than a year prior to February 1,1893, the plaintiff, Addie M. Shorn, in association with George H. Hopper, under the firm name of N. Shaw & Co., was engaged in a foundry business at Eau Claire, where was located the National Electric Manufacturing Company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of electrical machinery, dynamos, generators, and the like, involving the taking of considerable contracts for the installation of electric plants. It was a corporation which had been organized, partly at…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed May 21,1901:
Dodge, J.
The appellant’s brief presents and argues some seventy specific allegations of error. In many cases ■they are merely variant aspects of the same question, and in the effort to avoid undue prolixity we shall attempt to *175•discuss the questions raised, rather than the individual a's-■signments.
1. An objection in the nature of a demurrer ore tenus was ovérruled. In this we’find no error; for, while by the complaint wqre demanded elements of damage not recoverable, some cause of action was set forth. It was, at least, alleged that plaintiff and…
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