Grant v. Lewis
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Orawford County. The nature of this action is stated in the opinion of the court. The following are the instructions given by the court to the jury, to which exceptions were taken by the defendants.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Orawford County. The nature of this action is stated in the opinion of the court. The following are the instructions given by the court to the jury, to which exceptions were taken by the defendants. “1. That the several matters given in evidence on the part of the defendants were not sufficient in law to bar the plaintiff of his action. 2. That if the jury believed from the evidence that the plaintiff, at or about the time he purchased of Ammon the goods and and chattels in controversy, made an arrangement with said Ammon whereby the latter was to have the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
PAINE, J.
This was an action brought for *489tbe alleged wrongful taking and detention of a stock of goods. The plaintiff claimed them under a sale from Am- _ mon, and the defendants had seized them upon an attachment against the goods of Ammon, issued in favor of some of his creditors subsequently to the sale. The material question upon the trial was, whether the sale to the plaintitt was fraudulent and void as against Ammon’s creditors ?
It appeared that • Ammon was left in possession of the goods, and the defendants, to show fraud "in the sale, offered in evidence his declarations…
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