Investment Registry, Ltd.v. Chicago & M. Electric Ry. Co.
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
In Equity. Suit by the Investment: Registry, Limited, against the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway Company and others.
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In Equity. Suit by the Investment: Registry, Limited, against the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway Company and others. On exceptions by the receiver of the defendant’s property to the report of a master on petition of Ira S. Lorenz for an order directing the receiver to pay a judgment rendered against the defendant and against the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company jointly and severally as joint tort-feasors for personal injuries to one Kaminski, by whom the judgment was transferred to Lorenz. in the circuit court for Milwaukee county one Kaminski brought suit against the…
1Opinion of the CourtGeiger, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The exceptions to the master’s report, the contentions of the receiver respecting petitioner’s right to relief upon facts not found, but disclosed in the evidence, necessitate a discussion of the evidence from two points of view:
First. Should the master, upon the whole evidence, have found the absence of an agreement or understanding such as is claimed to have existed between the petitioner, or his father, and the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company? This involves the further question whether, if there was no agreement, the master was justified in…
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