Metcalf v. City of Watertown
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United Slates for the Western District of Wisconsin. This was an action by Eliab W. Metcalf against the city of Water-town, Wis., on a judgment. The case was twice carried to the supreme court on error. See 9 Sup. Ct. 173, 128 U. S. 586, and 14 Sup. Ct. 947, 353 U. S. 671. A judgment having been entered on the mandate of the supreme court on the second appeal, the plaintiff now brings error to this court
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error brought this ao< tion in June, 1883, against the appellee, the city of Watertown, Wis., to recover the amount due on a judgment rendered against that city in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Wisconsin on the 8th day of May, 1866, in favor of Pitkin C. Wright for the sum, with costs, of $10,207.83, of which judgment the appellant claimed by means of certain assignments to have become the owner. The amended declaration contained the necessary averments concerning the citizenship of the parties and of the successive owners of…
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