Merwin v. Day
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL EEOM CIRCUIT COURT, DODGE COUNTY. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs under the mechanic’s lien act, as lumbermen, for furnishing $206 worth of lumber and materials used in the construction and erection of a dwelling, on a lot in the village of Fox Lake. The petition and complaint are in the usual forms.
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APPEAL EEOM CIRCUIT COURT, DODGE COUNTY. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs under the mechanic’s lien act, as lumbermen, for furnishing $206 worth of lumber and materials used in the construction and erection of a dwelling, on a lot in the village of Fox Lake. The petition and complaint are in the usual forms. The answer confessed the receipt of the lumber, &c.; and averred a settlement, and that the amount due was found to be $107, for which the defendants made their promissory note and gave it to the plaintiffs, with a power of attorney to confess judgment, and the same was…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
This cause was tried by the court, a jury being waived. The court stated the facts found upon the evidence, and the conclusions of law. The appellants filed exceptions to the propositions of law stated by the court in its decision. But no bill of exceptions has been prepared, nor any case settled and signed embracing the finding of the court and the exceptions taken. Filing exceptions in the clerk’s office, or serving them upon the opposite attorney, is not sufficient to enable this court to review the exceptions and questions of law involved. The party desiring a review *158m…
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