Plumer v. Clarke
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Lincoln County. The appeals are by the defendants from orders refusing to permit the answers to be so amended as to set up the statute of limitations. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
These cases present precisely the same question of law, and will therefore be considered together. The actions are ejectment. In-each case the defendant answered : (1) A general denial; (2) “ that if the plaintiff ever had any cause of action against the defendant the same is barred by the statute of limitations.” Subsequently, the defendants made application to amend the answers, so as to set up in a proper manner the statute of limitations relied on in support of tax certificates and tax deeds under which they claimed title. The circuit court denied the .amendments solely on the ground that…
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