Lange v. Heckel
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the municipal court of , Brown county: N. J. Monahan, Judge. Action to recover damages resulting from a conspiracy. The following facts are undisputed: The plaintiffs are husband and wife, of Polish nationality, unsophisticated in business transactions, speak the English language poorly and write it not at all. They owned a little forty-acre farm, situated about a mile from the village of Pulaski, which had been their home for a number of'years.
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Appeals from a judgment of the municipal court of , Brown county: N. J. Monahan, Judge. Action to recover damages resulting from a conspiracy. The following facts are undisputed: The plaintiffs are husband and wife, of Polish nationality, unsophisticated in business transactions, speak the English language poorly and write it not at all. They owned a little forty-acre farm, situated about a mile from the village of Pulaski, which had been their home for a number of'years. The defendant Heckel owned a two-story frame building in the village of Pulaski. For some time prior to the 21st day of…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinions were filed January 13, 1920:
Owen, J.
It is the major contention of appellants that the verdict is not supported by the evidence. The gist of the action is embodied in the first question of the special verdict, by which the jury found that two or more of the defendants conspired to defraud plaintiffs by securing the land contract in question. The answer to this question was *64pursuant to an instruction that the burden of proof to support an affirmative answer was upon the' plaintiffs to establish the truth thereof' by clear and satisfactory evidence to a reasonable…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Bell v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1919
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- Braun v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1919
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