Hage v. Campbell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for St. Croix County. Action for the wrongful conversion of personal property. The defendant, who was the sheriff of St. Croix county, justified the taking under a writ of attachment against, the firm of I-Iagen Bros., issued in an action brought by creditors of that firm. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. There was a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for 0974.18, and from the judgment thereon the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed November 25, 1890.
Cole, O. J.
It would be impossible, without writing a very long opinion, to notice in detail all the errors assigned for a reversal of the judgment in this case, nor is such an extended discussion necessary to dispose of the questions involved. A reference to a few elementary principles of law is all that need be said upon the numerous errors assigned.
The plaintiff’s right to recover the value of the goods in *574controversy depends entirely upon the validity of a chattel mortgage given to him by the Hagen Eros., dated May 3, 1886. If that mortgage…
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