Owens v. Northrup
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action for tbe enforcement of a mechanic’s lien. Tbe plaintiffs, Owens and Waldo, filed tbeir petition for a lien upon tbe lot of Northrup, tbe defendant, for labor performed by plaintiffs, as carpenters and joiners upon defendant’s building. Tbe case comes up solely upon exceptions to rulings of tbe court on questions of evidence.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Action for tbe enforcement of a mechanic’s lien. Tbe plaintiffs, Owens and Waldo, filed tbeir petition for a lien upon tbe lot of Northrup, tbe defendant, for labor performed by plaintiffs, as carpenters and joiners upon defendant’s building. Tbe case comes up solely upon exceptions to rulings of tbe court on questions of evidence. Upon tbe trial, plaintiffs produced as a witness, one Wilson, who testified that be resided at "Winneconne in 1869, and was engaged in a foundry and machine shop, and that plaintiffs were then engaged in tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
This case comes up solely upon exceptions to evidence, or rather to the rulings of the court in excluding certain evidence offered by the defendant on the trial, and in sustaining objections to sundry questions put by him to the witnesses. The action is to enforce a mechanics lien, and the main point or gist of controversy, seems to be as to the personal liability of the defendant for the demands of the plaintiffs. The work was done, and some materials furnished by the plaintiffs, under a contract entered into by them, with one Wilson, who claimed to act as the agent of the defendant in the…
2Cited by2 opinions
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