Farmers' Co-operative Packing Co. v. Boyd
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment pf the circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. Action to recover’ damages sustained by plaintiff by reason of its purchase of the Langdon-Boyd Packing Company’s plant situated at La Crosse, Wisconsin, at an exorbitant price, being induced thereto by an alleged fraudulent conspiracy on the part of the defendants.
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Appeal from a judgment pf the circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. Action to recover’ damages sustained by plaintiff by reason of its purchase of the Langdon-Boyd Packing Company’s plant situated at La Crosse, Wisconsin, at an exorbitant price, being induced thereto by an alleged fraudulent conspiracy on the part of the defendants. The defendants named in the complaint were Andrew Boyd, Isabella Boyd, Langdon-Boyd Packing Company, a corporation,- George W. Burton, Frank P. Hixon, Joseph B. Funke, Carl F. Michel, Henry Gund, F. A. S. Price, Ira M. Chryst, R. A.…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed November 15, 1921:
Vinje, J.
The foregoing statement of facts is an outline statement only and does not purport to embody detailed facts. It does, however, contain the main facts around which the evidentiary facts cluster. The complaint alleged a fraudulent conspiracy and the proof properly took a wide range, perhaps in a number of instances on behalf of plaintiff wider^ than the rules of evidence permit even in such cases. It is therefore not practical in a judicial opinion to set forth the detailed evidence, especially in a case such as this, where the…
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