Getty v. Rountree
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Grant County. This was an action of assumpsit on a promissory note, executed by the defendants to the plaintiffs, who were manufacturers of pumps, for the price of a pump furnished by them to defendants, to be used for pumping water from a lead mine, under a contract with them; for the sum of $400.31, dated October 5, 1847, payable three months after date.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Grant County. This was an action of assumpsit on a promissory note, executed by the defendants to the plaintiffs, who were manufacturers of pumps, for the price of a pump furnished by them to defendants, to be used for pumping water from a lead mine, under a contract with them; for the sum of $400.31, dated October 5, 1847, payable three months after date. The defendants pleaded- non-assumpsit, and, under that plea, gave notice that they would prove on the trial that the note was given for the balance due on the purchase of a certain pump, bought of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHujbbejll, J.
The plaintifis in error, who were manufacturers, residing at St. Louis, contracted in September, 1847, to deliver to the defendants in error, who were engaged in the business of mining, in Wisconsin, a pump, “used for pumping water from a lead mine/' The pump was delivered at Galena, about the last of October following, and the defendants soon afterwards put it up, in connection with a steam engine by which it was to be propelled, in their ■“ diggings.” The present suit was brought upon a promissory note for about $400, balance of the purchase money.
To the declaration, a plea of general issue…
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