Littlejohn v. Jacobs
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Walworth County. This is an appeal from an order sustaining a traverse of an affidavit annexed to a writ of attachment, and dissolving and setting aside the attachment.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Walworth County. This is an appeal from an order sustaining a traverse of an affidavit annexed to a writ of attachment, and dissolving and setting aside the attachment. The affidavit states that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff “ in the sum of $867.50, as near as may be, over and above all legal set-offs, and that the same is due upon express contract, to wit, for goods sold and delivered in the sum of $542.52, which sum is past due, and on promissory note in the sum of $325, which latter sum is to become due.” Several grounds for executing the…
1Opinion of the Court
LyoN, <J.
In August, 1884, the plaintiff sold to the defendant a drove of cattle. The following memorandum of the contract was written and signed by the plaintiff, and delivered to the defendant:
“Cattle sold W. H. Jacobs, for $648.50, embracing 21 head of cattle, to be paid by transfer of a certain mortgage now at the First National Bank, the collection of which is to be guarantied by him.
“August 26,188f N. M. Littlejouh.”
There was a failure to deliver a few of the cattle, which reduced the consideration for those delivered to $542.52, the sum stated in the affidavit.
It was overwhelmingly…
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