Price v. Wisconsin Marine & Fire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. Action for damages for the conversion of two warehouse receipts and the grain covered by them. The defendant company has been engaged for many years in a general banking business in the city of Milwaukee. One Watson, a commission merchant in that city, purchased with plaintiff’s funds, for the plaintiff, and under his direction, January 2, 1876, two thousand bushels of wheat, and received therefor the receipts in question.
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APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. Action for damages for the conversion of two warehouse receipts and the grain covered by them. The defendant company has been engaged for many years in a general banking business in the city of Milwaukee. One Watson, a commission merchant in that city, purchased with plaintiff’s funds, for the plaintiff, and under his direction, January 2, 1876, two thousand bushels of wheat, and received therefor the receipts in question. They were in the usual form, stating that the wheat was “ received in store from ” persons named, “ for account of…
1Opinion of the CourtRyan, C. J.
This appeal was twice argued, at great length and with great learning and ability, by counsel on both sides. It is impossible, within proper limits, to review all the collateral positions taken, or to trace principles remotely bearing on the question, through the wilderness of cases cited. Nor is it necessary. Whatever light we have been able to derive from those cases, the question after all rests upon the construction of two statutory provisions, which appear to us unambiguous in themselves, and to be confused only by ingenious misconstruction. This sometimes happens through undue love of “…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Welch v. SackettWisconsin Supreme Court · 1860
- Cartwright v. . WilmerdingNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Shepardson v. CaryWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Stevens v. WilsonCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1846
- Hale v. Milwaukee Dock Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1872
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3Cited by14 opinions
- State ex rel. City of New Richmond v. DavidsonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1902
- Bush v. Export Storage Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Tennessee · 1904
- Klauber v. BiggerstaffWisconsin Supreme Court · 1879
- Commercial Bank v. HurtSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
- Geilfuss v. CorriganWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
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