Lonstorf v. Lonstorf
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court of Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Judge. The appeal is from an order sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s complaint charging that the defendant, her mother-in-law, maliciously, by persuasion and threats, induced plaintiff’s husband to abandon and refuse to live with or support her, whereby his affections became alienated, and plaintiff lost his consortium, society, comfort, aid, and support, to her damage.
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
This is a direct application to this court to reconsider the questions decided in Duffies v. Duffies, 76 Wis. 374, 46 N. W. 522, in 1890, and to overrule the conclusions there reached, for the present action is in no wise distinguishable from that. The trial court properly considered itself bound by the law of that case, but it is argued this court has both the power and duty, in a proper case, to correct mistakes into which it has at any time fallen. That it has such power results from its ability to execute such judgment as it may render. The irresponsibility of its power to be arbitrary…
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