Hurlbut v. Wilcox
Wisconsin Supreme Court
CERTIORARI to a Justice of the Peace in Wauhesha County. The ground on which a reversal of the justice’s judgment in this case was sought, will sufficiently appear from the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Dixon, C. J.
The statute provides that “ the amount of costs which may be recovered by the party in whose favor judgment is given, shall not, in any case tried in a justice’s court, exceed fifteen dollars.” Laws of 1862, ch. 288, sec. 1. In this case the justice taxed $26.54 costs, and rendered judgment therefor against the plaintiff in error. In this *420be clearly exceeded bis jurisdiction, and tbe judgment as to costs must be quashed.
He likewise rendered judgment for $21 damages, of which no complaint is made. The question is whether the judgment for damages may stand, and that for…
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