Legal Opinion

Slutts v. Chafee

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided March 9, 1880PublishedCited by 7 opinions

APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. Defendants appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff.

1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.

This action was commenced before a j ustice of the peace. The complaint was oral, and as entered in the docket of the justice was as follows: “ Plaintiff complains that defendant is indebted to him in manner following: for a stove lent to defendants some time in 1870 or .1871, which stove was of the value of about $45, and which defendants have never returned to plaintiff, and refused to return it when demanded; and demands judgment, with costs.”

The answer of the defendants was a general denial, and that one S. J. Plummer was a copartner with the defendants, and should be joined as a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Trowbridge v. SicklerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1877

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Swanson v. City of OttumwaSupreme Court of Iowa · 1902
  2. Murray v. McGarigleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1887
  3. Cox v. Gille Hardware and Iron Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1899
  4. Davis v. ChouteauSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
  5. Jewell v. NuhnSupreme Court of Iowa · 1915

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