Horton v. Dewey
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond, ciu Lao County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe: “Action for the unlawful taking and conversion of personal property.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond, ciu Lao County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe: “Action for the unlawful taking and conversion of personal property. The defendants answered, denying the plaintiff’s ownership of the property described in the complaint, and alleging, for a further defense, that Dewey and Emerson recovered a judgment against one John P. Stoddard for $416.19; that on the 19th day of February, 1880, an execution was issued on such judgment and delivered to the defendant Neil O. Bell, sheriff of the county of Fond du Lac, for collection; that by virtue of…
1Opinion of the CourtTatlor, J.
There is no evidence in the case showing that Mrs. Stoddard ever paid her husband any consideration for the personal property conveyed to her by the bill of sale given in evidence, other than that inferable from the recitation in the bill of sale itself. The other evidence rather leaves the impression that there was no consideration paid by her to her husband. •
The appellants asked the court, among other things, to instruct the jury “that, in order to show that the title to the property described in the complaint passed by* said bill of sale, it must be shown that said bill of sale was…
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