Gillett v. Treganza
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO THE LA FAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. This was an action of replevin brought by the plaintiff below to recover “ sixty thousand pounds of lead ore, said ore being unwashed from the dirt dug out and raised therewith, and being what is commonly known and called wash-dirt mineral, and were lying and being,” &c., of the value of twelve hundred dollars.
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ERROR TO THE LA FAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. This was an action of replevin brought by the plaintiff below to recover “ sixty thousand pounds of lead ore, said ore being unwashed from the dirt dug out and raised therewith, and being what is commonly known and called wash-dirt mineral, and were lying and being,” &c., of the value of twelve hundred dollars. To the declaration filed, the defendants pleaded the general issue, and also several special pleas, that the property in the goods was in one of the defendants; and the plaintiffs jointly; and in the plaintiff and both the defendants, jointly.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Cou/rt,
Cole, J.
Quite a number of points have been made upon the briefs of counsel in this case, as to alleged erroneous rulings of the circuit court, upon questions of practice and as to the admission of testimony on the trial; but in the present disposition of the case, we shall confine ourselves exclusively to a consideration of such exceptions as were taken to the refusal of the court to give the instructions asked for by the defendants below and plaintiffs here, and also the exceptions taken to the instructions which were given to the jury by the circuit court.
The counsel for the…
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