Davidor v. Bradford
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeax from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. Eat SteveNS, Judge. Plaintiff, being solicitor for tbe sale of stock of a certain mining company, approached defendant and represented to bim tbat a block of 20,000 shares of stock could be obtained at price of eight and three-fourths cents per share, and that he, the plaintiff, could promptly dispose of said stock in smaller lots at thirty or thirty-five cents per share, and proposed that the two jointly…
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Appeax from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. Eat SteveNS, Judge. Plaintiff, being solicitor for tbe sale of stock of a certain mining company, approached defendant and represented to bim tbat a block of 20,000 shares of stock could be obtained at price of eight and three-fourths cents per share, and that he, the plaintiff, could promptly dispose of said stock in smaller lots at thirty or thirty-five cents per share, and proposed that the two jointly purchase such block of 20,000 shares, defendant to give his notes to the company for $1,750 therefor, and the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
We have no difficulty in finding support for the findings of tbe trial court, if not always in direct words of any witness, at least in tbe inferences reasonably deducible from tbe facts and situation shown; especially in view of tbe fact that tbe. plaintiff’s veracity stands impeached both by *527undisputed proof of reputation and by intrinsic evasions and self-contradiction. The situation presented, then, is a joint enterprise rendered hopeless of profit by plaintiff’s failure and refusal to perforin his agreed duty therein. Thereby defendant was laden with a quantity of unsalable mining stock…
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