Anderson v. Arpin Hardwood Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ean Claire county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge. The action is on contract and was commenced in Eau Claire county.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ean Claire county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge. The action is on contract and was commenced in Eau Claire county. This in short was the plaintiff’s claim: Between November 20, 1902, and October 29, 1903, plaintiff piled 19,087,033 feet of lumber for the defendant at the agreed price of seventy cents per thousand feet, and during the same time performed other work for the latter in and about its sawmill, for which it agreed to pay $417.25, and between the 23d day of February, 1903, and the 13th day of April, 1903, expended money for it at its…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
The Tuling against appellant’s motion for a change of the place of trial from Eau Claire county to Wood county involves an important practice question, which must be solved by the statutes governing the matter without much M-d from judicial authorities. Such statutes provide *39that the proper place for the trial of a civil action against a corporation of the sort to which appellant belongs is in “the county in which it is situated or has its principal office or place of business, or in which the cause of action or some part thereof arose” — sec. 2619, Stats. (1898)'; and that “when the county…
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