Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, Volume 163 |
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Page 522 - Where there is an available market for the goods in question, the measure of damages, in the absence of special circumstances showing proximate damages of a greater amount, is the difference between the contract price and the market or current price of the goods at the time or times when they ought to have been delivered, or, if no time was fixed, then at the time of the refusal to deliver.
Page 60 - Act in the same manner as though the property to which such appointment relates belonged absolutely to the donee of such power and had been bequeathed or devised by such donee by will...
Page 60 - When any such person or corporation becomes beneficially entitled, in possession or expectancy, to any property or the income thereof by any such transfer, whether made before or after the passage of this act.
Page 522 - Where the property in the goods has not passed to the buyer, and the seller wrongfully neglects or refuses to deliver the goods, the buyer may maintain an action against the seller for damages for non-delivery.
Page 187 - ... to the effect that they are bound, in double the value of the property, as stated in the affidavit of the plaintiff, for the delivery thereof to the plaintiff, if such delivery be adjudged, and for the payment to him of such sum as may, for any cause, be recovered against the defendant.
Page 482 - Equitable estoppel is the effect of the voluntary conduct of a party whereby he is absolutely precluded, both at law and in equity, from asserting rights which might, perhaps, have otherwise existed, either of property, of contract, or of remedy...
Page 593 - The question of fraudulent intent in all cases arising under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed a question of fact and not of law; nor shall any conveyance or charge be adjudged fraudulent as against creditors or purchasers solely on the ground that it was not founded on a valuable consideration.
Page 113 - The common council shall have the management and control of the finances, and of all the property of the city ; and shall likewise in additon to the power herein vested in them, have full power and authority to make, enact, ordain, establish, publish, enforce, alter, modify, amend and repeal all such ordinances, rules...
Page 396 - The action is brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for personal injuries sustained as a result of an accident which occurred while driving a team of horses across a bridge in the city of Kaukauna.
Page 624 - Under bur system that power is lodged with the legislative branch of the government. It belongs to that department to exert what are known as the police powers of the...