Bird v. Fake
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court for Milwaukee County. Assumpsit, brought by Fake & Cotton against Bird, upon a bill of charges in favor of the plaintiffs as keepers of the American Hotel at Madison, against the defendant, a large portion of which was for liquors and hotel expenses.
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ERROR to the District Court for Milwaukee County. Assumpsit, brought by Fake & Cotton against Bird, upon a bill of charges in favor of the plaintiffs as keepers of the American Hotel at Madison, against the defendant, a large portion of which was for liquors and hotel expenses. The last item of the account was dated August 30, 1839. Bird pleaded the general issue, and gave notice of set-off, and that the amount of the plaintiffs’ demand had been paid and applied by the defendant, at their request, upon the discharge of a debt owing by the plaintiffs for rent of the American Hotel to James…
1Opinion of the CourtIrvin, J.
This cause which was tried and decided in the district court of Milwaukee came up on error, as set forth and complained of, in exceptions taken to the sev*295eral decisions and directions of the court to the jury, both in its general charge and special instructions asked for. When instructions to the jury are asked for upon a particular point of law as connected with the case generally, or upon the law connected with a particular point in the evidence, and exceptions to the instructions given are taken, the inquiry of the appellate or court of error is generally confined to the particular and…
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- Huguet v. HalletNew York Supreme Court · 1803
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