Old Port Brewing Corp. v. C. W. Fischer Furniture Co.

At the outset, we are confronted with the question as to the appealability of the orders. The judgments entered on the defendants’ counterclaim and also against the garnishee defendants, were default judgments. The plaintiffs, according to their showing, had inadvertently failed to answer the defendant’s counterclaim and failed to appear for trial in pursuance of the notice sent to Mr. Collins by the clerk of the court. In Kelm v. Kelm, 204 Wis. 301, 235 N. W. 787, it was considerately held that neither an order which vacated and set aside a default judgment entered in a divorce action nor an…