Legal Opinion

Case Wagon Co. v. Wolfenden

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided November 23, 1886Published

APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La Crosse County. The case was before this court on a former appeal and is reported in 63 Wis. 185, where a sufficient statement of the facts will be found. After the reversal of the judgment on the former appeal, the cause was remanded to the trial court, and the venue was thereupon changed to La Crosse county.

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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La Crosse County. The case was before this court on a former appeal and is reported in 63 Wis. 185, where a sufficient statement of the facts will be found. After the reversal of the judgment on the former appeal, the cause was remanded to the trial court, and the venue was thereupon changed to La Crosse county. A trial in that county resulted in a verdict in.. favor of tbe defendants Wolfenden, Pei/neelee, and Erd, and from so much of the judgment as dismissed the action as to said defendants the plaintiff appealed.

1Opinion of the Court

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As we understand this case as now presented, every material question raised upon this appeal is res ad-judieata in the case reported in 63 Wis. 185, and the circuit court in its instructions to the jury and its rulings appears to have been governed strictly by the decision and opinion upon the former appeal. The errors assigned do not materially affect the real merits of the case.

The plaintiffs, by the intended purchase of its property, assumed the payment of the debts of the “ Wonewoc Manufacturing Company,” and, as a part of such indebtedness of the company, the notes in suit…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Case Wagon Co. v. WolfendenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1885

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