Ahlhauser v. Butler
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin
At Law. Action by William Ahlhauser against William Allen Butler and others for negligence while acting as plaintiff’s attorneys. The case was tried by the court. Judgment for defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
SEAMAN, District Judge.
In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover of the defendants, constituting the law firm of Butler, Still-man & Hubbard, of New York city, for alleged negligence as attorneys, whereby attached funds to the amount of $5,852.01 were *122lost to plaintiff. There is-no claim, of want of promptness or diligence, but the charge of liability rests entirely upon the affidavit' for attachment, which was adjudged there to be “wholly insufficient to confer jurisdiction.”
In January, 1888, James W. Vail & Co., bankers at Port Washington, Wis., failed. Turner & Timlin, a law Arm of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Savings Bank v. WardSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Goodman v. WalkerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1857
- Crowns v. VailNew York Supreme Court · 1889
- Nat. Park Bk. of N.Y. v. . WhitmoreNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Simpson v. McCartyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1889
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Ahlhauser v. ButlerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1894