Carhart v. Harshaw
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wmnebago County. ' Eeplevin, for boots. In 1872, Dr. J. W. Carhart was indebted to one Gleason in the sum of $334 on a New Tort judgment.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wmnebago County. ' Eeplevin, for boots. In 1872, Dr. J. W. Carhart was indebted to one Gleason in the sum of $334 on a New Tort judgment. Prior to October, 1876, he had been a minister or clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal - Church, residing at Oshtosh, and had for some time owned and used a private and professional library, of the value of $200. In October, 1876, he was elected a presiding elder of said church, and continued to reside at Oshtosh; and after such election he claims to have given the boots contained in said library to his two minor children,…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
Notwitbstanding'tbe. ingenious criticisms of the acute and learned counsel for the defendant upon the charge of the circuit court, a majority of the court think there was nothing in the charge which could have misled the jury to the prejudice of his client. The portion of the charge to which the first exception was taken, reads as follows: “I say to you as a proposition of law, it being conceded that they were exempt as his library, that he had the right to sell them for a valuable consideration to any one, and that, when sold for a valuable consideration to a purchaser, they were still not…
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