Webber v. Quaw
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marathon County. Action for damages for cutting, carrying away and converting timber. Defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. The errors alleged will sufficiently appear from the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Oetoít, J.
This action is for damages for cutting, carrying away and converting 400,000 feet of certain pine logs and timber; and the answer virtually alleges that such cutting was done by permission and license from the owner of the land.
The first exception in the record, but which was not urged upon the argument, was to the admission of the assignment, *119to the plaintiffs, of the cause of action; which may have been objected to on the ground that it was not assignable, although the record does not disclose what objection was made to its admissibility. The assignability of choses in action was…
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