Wightman v. Devere
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Municipal Court of the City of Bipon. The following statement of the case formed originally a part of the opinion of Mr. Justice Cole : “ This action was brought in a justice’s court to recover damages resulting from the intoxication of plaintiff’s husband by liquors sold him by the defendant.
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APPEAL from tbe Municipal Court of the City of Bipon. The following statement of the case formed originally a part of the opinion of Mr. Justice Cole : “ This action was brought in a justice’s court to recover damages resulting from the intoxication of plaintiff’s husband by liquors sold him by the defendant. The plaintiff alleges in her complaint, that in consequence of such intoxication her husband fell from a wagon, and was so seriously injured as to require medical attendance, and constant care, watching and nursing on her part, by which she was injured in person and through mental strain…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The first objection taken in this court on the part of the defendant is, that the justice had no jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action, and, as a consequence, that the municipal court acquired none by the appeal. If the premises of this argument are correct, the conclusion is legitimate, most undoubtedly. Had, then, a justice jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action, the amount of damages claimed in the complaint not exceeding two hundred dollars? We are of opinion that he had.
*574The right of action is given by the provisions of ch. 127, Laws of 1872. The last clause of…
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