Wisconsin Supreme Court May 4, 1860 (Malbon v. Birney)

By the Court,

Cole, J.

On the trial of this cause the circuit court, among other things, instructed the jury, “ that if they believed from the evidence, that the appellant took possession of the house after Kennedy left it, and went on and *109finished it in whole or in part, and occupied it, that he would be liable to pay (if they were otherwise entitled to recover), he respondents, whatever sum