Sydnor v. Palmer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La Fayette County. Ejectment. The action was tried at the June term, 1870, of said court, and plaintiffs bad a verdict.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for La Fayette County. Ejectment. The action was tried at the June term, 1870, of said court, and plaintiffs bad a verdict. Defendants, before judgment, moved for a new trial on the ground of various alleged errors; but the motion was denied, and judgment was rendered upon the verdict September 20, 1870. Defendants appealed on the 22d of November following; the judgment was affirmed in this court December 29, 1871 [29 Wis., 226], and the cause remitted, the remittitur being filed in the circuit court January 4, 1872. The plaintiffs’ costs at the circuit were…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
This is one of those cases, unfortunately too frequent, growing out of that feverish and insatiable desire for change which pervades the law making department of the government. Frequent changes of laws are always bad, and they are especially much worse when rashly and inconsiderately made, without regard to their effects upon existing remedies and pending actions and proceedings. The question here presented arises out of no less than three distinct repeals of a section of the Revised Statutes, effected by three distinct acts *409of tbe legislature passed at three several sessions, and all within…
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