Skowron v. Skowron

Defendant demurred because, (1) the court has no jurisdiction over the subject of the action, and (2) the complaint does not state a cause of action. We consider that the demurrer should have been sustained on the latter ground.

Jurisdiction to enter declaratory judgments is given the court by sec. 269.56, Stats. Read literally, the subsections (2) and (3) thereof seem to require courts to give advisory opinions in any question concerning a contract, but before the law was enacted in Wisconsin other states had enacted and construed it, as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, which…