Oconto Chamber of Commerce v. Grandall
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oconto county: W. B. Quinlan, Circuit Judge. The citizens of Oconto being desirous of securing the location of a factory, a committee undertook to raise a sum of money by circulating a subscription list as follows: “Oconto, Wis., June 9, 1913. “Whereas, H. F. Jones, D. H. Mooney, J. B. Chase, A. M. Martineau, Chas.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oconto county: W. B. Quinlan, Circuit Judge. The citizens of Oconto being desirous of securing the location of a factory, a committee undertook to raise a sum of money by circulating a subscription list as follows: “Oconto, Wis., June 9, 1913. “Whereas, H. F. Jones, D. H. Mooney, J. B. Chase, A. M. Martineau, Chas. A. Best, L. C. Harvey, George Ansorge, and W. M. Comstock are about to become obligated for the purchase price of a building and site in Oconto, Wisconsin, to be given to a corporation for factory purposes at the end of five years’…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The defendant urges that there is not sufficient proof that the plaintiff, the Oconto Chamber of Commerce, which assumed the duties and functions of the committee named in the subscription list quoted above, had sufficient title or interest in such agreement to support its bringing this action. No formal writing or assignment appears in the record as having been executed by the committee to the plaintiff, yet we think the facts in this case, which we do not deem necessary to recite in detail, were sufficient to show that there was in legal effect a sufficient assignment of whatever interest…
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