Klauber v. Wright
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tlie Circuit Court for Monroe County. Action to charge Levi Wright as garnishee of Curtís 0. Noyes. The action against the principal debtor was commenced December 1, 1877, and judgment therein in favor of the plaintiff was rendered March 7, 1878. The action of garnishment was brought at the time the summons was served in the principal action, and the answer of the garnishee was taken orally before a court commissioner.
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APPEAL from tlie Circuit Court for Monroe County. Action to charge Levi Wright as garnishee of Curtís 0. Noyes. The action against the principal debtor was commenced December 1, 1877, and judgment therein in favor of the plaintiff was rendered March 7, 1878. The action of garnishment was brought at the time the summons was served in the principal action, and the answer of the garnishee was taken orally before a court commissioner. Issue was joined on such answer, and in June, 1879, the cause was tried before a referee. He found that Wright was indebted to Noyes in the sum of $1,032.06, with…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
In this case we have been favored with the opinion of the learned circuit judge, given on the motion to confirm the report of the referee, and on sustaining the garnishee’s exceptions to that report. This opinion contains such a full, clear and satisfactory discussion of the questions of law and fact involved in the case, that it might, in the main, be adopted as presenting our own views on these questions. The fact that a settlement was made between the garnishee and principal debtor, Noyes, on the 26th of April, 1876, is too conclusively established to admit of doubt. A memorandum in…
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