Hall v. Frankel
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Vilas county: A. H. Reid, Circuit Judge. The complaint asserted a number of causes of action, although designated in the complaint and treated on the trial and the argument here as but three.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Vilas county: A. H. Reid, Circuit Judge. The complaint asserted a number of causes of action, although designated in the complaint and treated on the trial and the argument here as but three. The general statements common to all are these: Plaintiffs are husband and wife and residents of the village of Eagle River, Wisconsin; the defendants (Moses Frankel being the father of defendant David) were copart-ners operating a general store in the same village. The allegation as to the copartnership was admitted in the answers. The designated first…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The charge of an indecent assault and a battery being now out of the case, the complaint presents, 'notwithstanding the pleader’s attempted segregation into but two causes of action, the following: '
Three several, separate, and independent causes of action against the defendant Moses Frankel for slander, with appropriate allegations as to damages in the sum of $2,000 in each.
A separate and independent cause of action for an alleged conspiracy between the two' defendants to spread false and slanderous statements in the community against the plaintiff Mrs. Hall, as a result whereof the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Blake v. SmithSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1896
3Cited by3 opinions
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