Draeger v. John Lubotsky Motor Sales, Inc.

The sole issue on this appeal is whether the trial court erred in sustaining defendants’ demurrers to the amended complaint on the ground that it did not state a cause of action for punitive damages.

It has long been established in Wisconsin that:

“ . . A. prayer for relief is no substantive part of a complaint and the fact that the plaintiff “asks for more relief than that which his pleaded facts entitle him to have is not reached by demurrer.” ’ ” Northwestern Motor Car, Inc. v. Pope (1971), 51 Wis. 2d 292, 295, 187 N. W. 2d 200, quoting from D’Angelo v. Cornell Paperboard Products Co.…