Douglass v. Garrett
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This was an. action of replevin, commenced and tried in the La Crosse Circuit Court, for a quantity of lumber of tbe value of $500. The declaration stated that the defendants “ unlawfully took certain goods and chattels, the property of the plaintiff, to wit: twenty-four squares of pine lumber, rafted 12 by 16 feet square and 11 courses deep ; three squares of pine lumber, rafted 16 feet square and 11 courses deep ; and two squares of pine lumber, rafted 16 by 18 feet…
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This was an. action of replevin, commenced and tried in the La Crosse Circuit Court, for a quantity of lumber of tbe value of $500. The declaration stated that the defendants “ unlawfully took certain goods and chattels, the property of the plaintiff, to wit: twenty-four squares of pine lumber, rafted 12 by 16 feet square and 11 courses deep ; three squares of pine lumber, rafted 16 feet square and 11 courses deep ; and two squares of pine lumber, rafted 16 by 18 feet square, marked with a knife, ‘ T. D.,’ and with red chalk, ‘ Thomas Douglass,’ also marked with red chalk, ‘ W. L. K.,’…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
This was an action of replevin commenced in the La Crosse Circuit Court, hy the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error, for a quantity of lumber of the value of five hundred dollars.
The declaration was in the cepit, to which the defendant pleaded the general issue. The record, as it is sent up here, is, to say the least, very inartificial. It is stated that on a certain day the defendants had leave to amend their plea. After-wards, it is stated that not having complied with the terms on which leave to amend was granted, their default was entered. Afterwards,…
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