Pelton v. Spider Lake Sawmill & Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Bayfield county: JohN K. Rakish, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on two promissory notes, aggregating $2,523.56, with interest.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Bayfield county: JohN K. Rakish, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on two promissory notes, aggregating $2,523.56, with interest. Tbe complaint was in tbe usual form to recover of tbe defendant corporation as an indorser, The notes were signed by Humphrey & Holdridge, payable to the order of the defendant, and indorsed in its name by W, W. Hathway, treasurer, and by Willoughby & Hathway, a firm of which said treasurer was a member. The defense was that the defendant had no connection with the transaction of giving the notes; that it received no…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRshaxu, J.
This case having been here on appeal from a former judgment (see Pelton v. Spider Lake S. & L. Co. 117 Wis. 569, 94 N. W. 293), when many of the questions in relation to respondent’s liability on the notes were settled, it is not deemed advisable to discuss any but the new questions raised, at least to any considerable length.
Counsel for appellants assign thirty-one errors, but many of them are of such a character as to require but a brief mention because of the former decision or the state of the record, •and some none at all because they are not discussed, suggesting the reasons supposed to…
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