Potter v. Necedah Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Juneau -county: A. J. Yinje, Judge. Action to recover damages for wrongfully inducing plaintiff to part with capital stock in the Neeedah Lumber Oom-jpaivy belonging to her ward, for less than its fair value, the wrong consisting in purposely falsely representing the char.acter and value of the corporate property, the facilities for properly, continuing the business of the corporation, and the advisability of reducing the…
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Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Juneau -county: A. J. Yinje, Judge. Action to recover damages for wrongfully inducing plaintiff to part with capital stock in the Neeedah Lumber Oom-jpaivy belonging to her ward, for less than its fair value, the wrong consisting in purposely falsely representing the char.acter and value of the corporate property, the facilities for properly, continuing the business of the corporation, and the advisability of reducing the capital stock, for the purpose -of inducing plaintiff to surrender for cancellation a part of her stock and to sell the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed September 26, 1899:
Marshall, J.
As properly said by the learned counsel for appellant on the trial of this case, the two vital questions on the side of the plaintiff were, "Was the plaintiff induced to sell her ward’s stock by false and fraudulent representations made by the defendants, or any of them? and If so to what extent, if any, was she damaged thereby? Those two elements are still the vital questions to be considered. "While *29the assignments of error contained in the brief of o counsel present some matters that if reached would be worthy of judicial…
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