Manz v. Klippel
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tlie circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeeeN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Tbe defendants filed a petition in tbe county court of Milwaukee county praying that a judicial inquiry be made as to tbe sanity of tbe plaintiff. Upon sncb petition tbe court made an order for tbe examination of tbe plaintiff’s mental condition.
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Appeal from an order of tlie circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeeeN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Tbe defendants filed a petition in tbe county court of Milwaukee county praying that a judicial inquiry be made as to tbe sanity of tbe plaintiff. Upon sncb petition tbe court made an order for tbe examination of tbe plaintiff’s mental condition. Two physicians were appointed to conduct such examination, and they reported tbe plaintiff sane, whereupon tbe proceeding was dismissed. Plaintiff thereafter brought this action-in one of the civil courts of Milwaukee county to recover damages for…
1Opinion of the CourtBabjtes, J.
1. The fact that plaintiff was in form given no option to submit to a reduction of the verdict or take a new trial is something that he might complain of, but it is not apparent that the defendants have any cause of complaint. ITad the court’s attention been directed to the omission, it would no doubt have been supplied. We find nothing to indicate that the court did not, fix the recovery of punitory damages at the lowest sum which it was thought a jury in a subsequent trial would be likely to award.
2. The discharge in the county court was prima facie evidence of want of probable cause.…
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