Steckmesser v. Graham
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL FROM CIRCUIT COURT, DODGE COUNTY. This is an appeal brought by Steckmesser from an order of the Dodge Circuit Court, by which a transcript of a judgment rendered by Charles Beckman, Esq., a Justice of the Peace for the County of Dodge, in favor of Steckmesser, and against Graham & Scott, and which had been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dodge county, was ordered to be stricken from the files and the docket entries in the Judgment docket;…
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APPEAL FROM CIRCUIT COURT, DODGE COUNTY. This is an appeal brought by Steckmesser from an order of the Dodge Circuit Court, by which a transcript of a judgment rendered by Charles Beckman, Esq., a Justice of the Peace for the County of Dodge, in favor of Steckmesser, and against Graham & Scott, and which had been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dodge county, was ordered to be stricken from the files and the docket entries in the Judgment docket; which order was ordered to be vacated and set aside. The order in this cause had been brought on by an order to show cause,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Paine, J.
This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Dodge county, striking from the files a *39transcript of a justice’s judgment, and vacating the docket entries thereon. It appears from the papers used in the court below, that an appeal was taken from the judgment of the justice, by the defendants, without, however, specifying to what court; and the justice, supposing that the ward in which he acted, had been attached to Jefferson county, by an act of the Legislature, which was afterwards held by this court not to have that effect, returned the papers to the circuit…
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