Crawley v. American Society of Equity of North America
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sauk county: E. Rat Stevehts, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for services. The American Society of Equity of North America (hereinafter called American Society) is a corporation without capital stock organized under the laws of the state of Indiana. Its objects are, in general, to promote the interests of farmers.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sauk county: E. Rat Stevehts, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for services. The American Society of Equity of North America (hereinafter called American Society) is a corporation without capital stock organized under the laws of the state of Indiana. Its objects are, in general, to promote the interests of farmers. The organized forms of the Amemcan Society are local unions, county unions, state unions, and a national union, or the American Society, also department and district unions. The national union is the supreme head of the organization…
1Opinion of the Court
*16The following opinion was filed January 28, 1913:
Vinje, J.
The court properly dismissed the action as to' the American Society. The plaintiff stood in no contractual , relation to it and the services were not rendered under such circumstances as to imply an intention on its part to pay therefor, within the rule of Wojahn v. Nat. Union Bank, 144 Wis. 646, 129 N. W. 1068, and kindred cases. The services were not performed at its request, and there is nothing to show that it knew they were being rendered for the Wisconsin State Union, except the fact that, out of every initiation fee of one…
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