Davies v. Skinner
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Hock County. The opinion states the substance of the complaint, and of the evidence given on the trial in the circuit court. There was a verdict for the plaintiffs, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
OetoN, T.
This suit was brought before a justice, and the complaint consisted of an account regularly made out as a “ bill rendered ” for threshing oats, barley, and wheat for the defendant, together with the averments that the plaintiffs were partners and that the defendant was indebted to them in the amount of the bill and interest, and a prayer for judgment. On the trial the defendant objected to any evidence under the complaint because it stated no cause of action. We think that it was a praiseworthy model of a complaint before a justice of the peace. It informed the defendant specifically…
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