Collins v. Case
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Racine County. This action was brought by JLenry Gollins and thirty others against Jerome I Case and sixteen others, to compel an accounting by Gase for all moneys received by or for him upon certain subscriptions, made by him and the other defendants and by the plaintiffs, to a fund for the purchase of certain oil lands and leases, said Gase having been appointed by the subscribers to said fund their agent and trustee to receive the…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Racine County. This action was brought by JLenry Gollins and thirty others against Jerome I Case and sixteen others, to compel an accounting by Gase for all moneys received by or for him upon certain subscriptions, made by him and the other defendants and by the plaintiffs, to a fund for the purchase of certain oil lands and leases, said Gase having been appointed by the subscribers to said fund their agent and trustee to receive the conveyances of such lands for them; and also to have Gase removed from his said office and employment as such agent and…
1Opinion of the CourtDrxosr, C. J.
Cross appeals from the same judgment; which judgment, we think, must be affirmed on both appeals, for the reasons given by the judge of the circuit court in the able opinion filed by him when the cause was there decided. The correctness of the judgment will at once appear when we consider the nature of the action. The complaint charges the defendant Case, in his capacity of agent, with having collected and received from the subscribers, including his own subscription, a large sum of money, only a portion of which was paid out by him in the purchase of the lands and in the necessary incidental…
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