Brown v. La Crosse City Gas Light & Coke Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Orosse County. Action to enforce a lien for materials. Tbe complaint avers tbat on, &c., the defendant was constituted a body politic and corporate (specifying the corporate name and act of incorporation) ; and tbat on the 8tb of October, 1861, defendant “ through William Brewster, wbo was the president of said company, and duly authorized, ” bought of plaintiff certain lead pipe and pig lead to be used, and the same were used, in the…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Orosse County. Action to enforce a lien for materials. Tbe complaint avers tbat on, &c., the defendant was constituted a body politic and corporate (specifying the corporate name and act of incorporation) ; and tbat on the 8tb of October, 1861, defendant “ through William Brewster, wbo was the president of said company, and duly authorized, ” bought of plaintiff certain lead pipe and pig lead to be used, and the same were used, in the erection of the gas worts of said company, situated on certain described parcels of land. It farther avers demand and…
1Opinion of the CourtDowjstee, J.
The appeal in this case is from the order of the circuit court denying a motion for a new trial. The reasons urged for the new trial, and the errors here assigned, are *56in substance the same, and as follows : 1. That Esperson, one of the jurors, was not a citizen of the United States. 2. That the petition of the plaintiff for a lien was erroneously admitted in evidence, because it was not signed and sworn to. 3. That the records of the defendant were improperly admitted as evidence, because its existence as a corporation was not first proved. 4. That parol proof was erroneously admitted to…
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