Abrohams v. Freres
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Brown county: S. D. HastiNgs, Circuit Judge. Tbe complaint alleges, in effect, that at tbe times mentioned •therein the plaintiff was a dealer in bides, pelts, furs, and wool at Green Bay; that the defendants, whose individual names are unknown to the plaintiff, were, during said times, copartners engaged as manufacturing furriers and wholesale fur dealers in Chicago, New York, and Europe; that January 16, 1904, at Green Bay,…
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Brown county: S. D. HastiNgs, Circuit Judge. Tbe complaint alleges, in effect, that at tbe times mentioned •therein the plaintiff was a dealer in bides, pelts, furs, and wool at Green Bay; that the defendants, whose individual names are unknown to the plaintiff, were, during said times, copartners engaged as manufacturing furriers and wholesale fur dealers in Chicago, New York, and Europe; that January 16, 1904, at Green Bay, the plaintiff and the defendants entered into a contract whereby the defendants agreed to take all of the plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe following opinion was filed May 8, 1906:
Cassodat, O. J.
Tbe important question is whether tbe trial court was justified in changing tbe answers of tbe jury to tbe second and third questions., from tbe affirmative to tbe negative. By such ruling tbe court in effect held, notwithstanding tbe evidence and findings of tbe jury to tbe contrary, that tbe plaintiff was not “justified in believing that tbe defendants bad given Mr. Ball authority to contract for them for furs to be gathered and delivered in tbe future,” and that Mr. Ball bad no “authority to contract for tbe defendants for furs to…
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