Molzahn v. Christensen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. The complaint in this case alleges two causes of action.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. The complaint in this case alleges two causes of action. Eor the first cause of action it is alleged that in April, 1909, the plaintiffs and the defendant “entered into a verbal contract by which the plaintiffs agreed to furnish the iron concrete reinforcement for a barn, and to furnish the labor for the completion of a bam, on the premises of the defendant in Yernon county, for the sum of four thousand nine hundred and forty-sis ($4,946) dollars;” that prior to December 1, 1909, the plaintiffs duly…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 7, 1913:
Siebecxeb, J.
The plaintiffs contend that the court erred in excluding part of the conversations that took place between the defendant and the plaintiffs relating to the work before they had complete plans for the barn, milk house, and the manure pit. The prior interviews are not essential to ascertain what was embraced in the contract finally and actually made. True, some of these prior interviews referred to part of the structures covered by the contract as found by the jury, but they were in the nature of preliminary negotiations and not…
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