Hill v. American Surety Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JohNsoN, Circuit Judge. On the 22d .of June, 1894, the Enger-Kress Company-made a voluntary assignment to E. B. Winterhalter, its vice president, and the defendant The American Surety Company became surety on his assignee’s bond. The company’s, business was the manufacture of leather goods in a factory of its own located in North Milwaukee.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JohNsoN, Circuit Judge. On the 22d .of June, 1894, the Enger-Kress Company-made a voluntary assignment to E. B. Winterhalter, its vice president, and the defendant The American Surety Company became surety on his assignee’s bond. The company’s, business was the manufacture of leather goods in a factory of its own located in North Milwaukee. It had at. the time of the assignment about $38,000 of fire insurance. No effort was made by the assignee to secure consent to assignment of these policies to him, nor was any attempt…
1Opinion
The following opinion was filed May 15, 1900:
Dodge; J.
1. The respondent’s argument upon motion for rehearing, while quite extended, presents nothing from the record which was not observed and fully considered by this court as bearing upon the facts of the case. The quotations from some opinion said to have been rendered by the circuit judge and from reporter’s minutes and depositions can hardly be urged upon our attention seriously by the counsel. However great our confidence in him personally, the law does not permit us to accept his assertions, to establish the proceedings at the trial.…
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