Patrick v. Town of Baldwin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county: E. W. Helms, Circuit Judge. The cause was commenced against the defendant town in justice’s court, wherein such proceedings were had that judgment was duly rendered in plaintiff’s favor for $101 damages and $20i91 costs, for services rendered as a physician in attending Richard Bruaas, a poor person having a legal settlement in said town, without any direction or employment by the supervisors of said town, or…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county: E. W. Helms, Circuit Judge. The cause was commenced against the defendant town in justice’s court, wherein such proceedings were had that judgment was duly rendered in plaintiff’s favor for $101 damages and $20i91 costs, for services rendered as a physician in attending Richard Bruaas, a poor person having a legal settlement in said town, without any direction or employment by the supervisors of said town, or either of them, and, so far as the complaint states the facts, without any notice to such supervisors or either of them,…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRshall, J.
The notice of appeal was sufficient. Strict accuracy is by no means necessary in such a paper in order *345to confer jurisdiction upon the appellate court. Mistakes, .however numerous, are immaterial if the notice yet contains enough to fairly identify the judgment, the parties, and the court, and to show that it was made by the party appealing, or some one authorized to do so, which authority meed not expressly appear, it being sufficient if it be fairly inferable from the language of the notice and the manner in which it is signed. The law in that regard is too well settled to need any citation…
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