Grand Chute v. Winegar
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; the case being thus: By the first section of an act of the 10th of February, 1854, the legislature of Wisconsin authorized the boards of supervisors of Grand Chute, Greenville, Hortonia, and certain other towns along the course of a contemplated plank-road in Wisconsin, named the Wolf River Branch Plank-road, to subscribe in behalf of said towns or any of them, “ under the restrictions and conditions…
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Error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; the case being thus: By the first section of an act of the 10th of February, 1854, the legislature of Wisconsin authorized the boards of supervisors of Grand Chute, Greenville, Hortonia, and certain other towns along the course of a contemplated plank-road in Wisconsin, named the Wolf River Branch Plank-road, to subscribe in behalf of said towns or any of them, “ under the restrictions and conditions hereinafter named,” to the capital stock of the said plankroad company, such amounts, not exceeding $10,000, for any one town, as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
The first alleged error of which complaint is now made is the direction of the court to the jury that they find the issue for the plaintiff on the plea of abatement where issue had been joined and testimony taken. The defendant held the affirmative of the issue, and attempted to sustain his case by calling Winegar, the plaintiff on the record.
Winegar swore that he had purchased the bonds On which the suit was brought of Goodwin ; that he was the absolute owner of them; that he gave for them his notes for $5100, payable in one and two years, at seven per cent, interest, and that the purchase…
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