Supervisors of Kewaunee County v. Decker
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Kewaunee County. Action for recovery of money alleged to belong to the county of Kewaunee, and to have been converted by defendant Decker; to his own use, he being the elerk of the plaintiff board of supervisors. The opinion states the case. Defendant having demurred to tbe complaint for insufficiency, tbe demurrer was overruled, and defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtDixoN, C. J.
It would certainly be a most anomalous and hitherto unknown condition of the laws of pleading, were it established that the plaintiff in a civil action could file and serve a complaint, the particular nature and object of which no one could tell, but which might and should be held good, as a statement of two or three or more different and inconsistent causes of action, as one in tort, one upon money demand on contract, and one in equity, all combined or fused and moulded into one count or declaration, so that the defendant must await the accidents and events of trial, and until the…
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