Standard Manufacturing Co. v. Slot
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Racine county: E. B. BeldeN, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on a written contract. The terms thereof are to the following effect: Plaintiff offered to furnish defendant a specific quantity of flavoring extracts, toilet and miscellaneous articles for $173 upon certain conditions, and defendant accepted sucb offer.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Racine county: E. B. BeldeN, Circuit Judge. Action to recover on a written contract. The terms thereof are to the following effect: Plaintiff offered to furnish defendant a specific quantity of flavoring extracts, toilet and miscellaneous articles for $173 upon certain conditions, and defendant accepted sucb offer. Sucb terms and conditions were, in tbe main, that defendant might return any articles not found suitable to bis trade, tbe purchase price thereof to be credited to him in payment for new goods to the extent of two thirds tbe price of…
1Opinion of the Court
Maeshall, T.
The court, against appellant’s objections, permitted evidence to be introduced respecting several transactions claimed to have taken place between its agent and strangers to the litigation, of the kind respondent was charged with. They were entirely independent of the occurrence under investigation. The evidence seems to have been offered to prove guilty intent on the part of appellant in making the alleged false representations which respondent claimed induced him to sign the contract. It was clearly irrelevant, and prejudicially so. It was entirely immaterial to plaintiffs cause…
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