Evans v. Rugee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. Action for the unlawful conversion of a stock of liquors and other personal property alleged to be the sole and separate property of the plaintiff, a married woman, and to have been received by her in payment of- a bona fide debt due to her in her own right from her "husband.
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APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. Action for the unlawful conversion of a stock of liquors and other personal property alleged to be the sole and separate property of the plaintiff, a married woman, and to have been received by her in payment of- a bona fide debt due to her in her own right from her "husband. The answer justified the taking under and by virtue of an attachment and execution against the property, of the husband, and alleged that the pretended sale and transfer to the plaintiff was without consideration, and was made by the husband and accepted by the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
OjetoN, J".
The plaintiff was the wife of Francis C. Evans, the defendant in the attachment and execution by virtue of which the defendant, as sheriff, took possession and holds the property as belonging to said defendant, which the plaintiff claims in this suit belonged to her as her separate property previously purchased by her from her said husband, and with means derived from her separate property and estate. The main issue to be tried was the question of fraud in said purchase. The jury found in their special verdict substantially that the sale and transfer of said property from the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Bond v. SeymourWisconsin Supreme Court · 1849
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