OPITZ v. BRAWLEY


10 Wis.2d 93 (1960)

OPITZ and another, Respondents, v. BRAWLEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

April 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant the cause was submitted on the brief of Maxon W. Polland of Milwaukee.

For the respondents there was a brief by Wiernick & Zurlo of Milwaukee, for Douglas J. Opitz, and by Maurice Weinstein of Milwaukee, for the Madison Building Corporation, and oral argument by Dominick D. Zurlo.


FAIRCHILD, J.

Sec. 241.08, Stats., provides in part:

"Nor shall a chattel mortgage of personal property which is by law exempt from seizure and sale upon execution, except a purchase-money chattel mortgage, be valid unless the same be signed by the wife of the person making such chattel mortgage, if he be a married man and his wife at the time be a member of his family, and unless such signature of such wife be witnessed by two witnesses."

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