Field v. City of Elroy
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Juneau county: O. B. WyMAN, Circuit Judge. This case comes up on a certificate of the trial judge. Such certificate is, in substance, as follows: The judgment rendered against the defendant is less than $100 without costs. The case necessarily involves a question or point of law of such doubt and difficulty as to require the decision of the supreme court.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Juneau county: O. B. WyMAN, Circuit Judge. This case comes up on a certificate of the trial judge. Such certificate is, in substance, as follows: The judgment rendered against the defendant is less than $100 without costs. The case necessarily involves a question or point of law of such doubt and difficulty as to require the decision of the supreme court. The action was commenced in the circuit court on contract for an amount within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace. Plaintiff sought to recover $38.50. A trial was had, resulting in a…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
Respondent claims that this court has no jurisdiction of the appeal, upon the ground that the judgment is not appealable. If such be the case it is because of the change made in the former law on the subject, under which an appeal from a judgment for costs only, was proper, by ch. 215, Laws of 1895, as amended by ch. 183, Laws of 1897, which provides that there shall be no appeal to the supreme court in any case involving, exclusive of costs, less than $100, except where the title to land is in question or the case necessarily involves the construction or interpretation of some provision of…
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