Board of Supervisors v. Ehlers
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Kenosha County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe: This action is brought upon the bond of Edward Elders, late treasurer of the county of Milwaukee, to recover of the sureties in said bond the sum of $10,150.80, for which sum it is alleged the late treasurer was a defaulter, and which he had failed to pay over to his successor in office. The answer is a general denial.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Kenosha County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe: This action is brought upon the bond of Edward Elders, late treasurer of the county of Milwaukee, to recover of the sureties in said bond the sum of $10,150.80, for which sum it is alleged the late treasurer was a defaulter, and which he had failed to pay over to his successor in office. The answer is a general denial. There is no dispute upon the evidence as to the fact that Elders was a defaulter in his accounts as treasurer, to the amount claimed by the plaintiffs; but it is insisted that the…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylok, J.
•We are of the opinion that the'finding of fact is fully sustained by the evidence in the case.
In the first place, the court might be justified in presuming that the finding of fact was sustained by the evidence, because the appellants have not pointed out wherein the evidence fails to support such finding. It becomes, we think, the duty of the party who takes an exception to a finding of fact, upon an appeal to this court, to point out wherein the evidence fails to establish such fact, and not leave the court to labor through a mass of undigested evidence to ascertain for itself where the…
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