Second Ward Savings Bank v. Schranck
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from an order of the superior court of Milwaukee county: Geo. E. SutheelaND, Judge, Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JohNsoN, Circuit Judge.
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Appeals from an order of the superior court of Milwaukee county: Geo. E. SutheelaND, Judge, Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JohNsoN, Circuit Judge. On the éth of May, 1897, the plaintiff bank caused to be entered in the superior court of Milwaukee county a judgment by confession upon a certain promissory note, dated August 15, 1896, in and by which Louis Henes, Jr., promised to pay to the plaintiff or order $24,000 in thirty days from date, with interest at sis per cent, from the date thereof, and claiming that $24,078.90, for principal and interest, was…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNey, J.
Except as to a matter of costs in the entry of the largest judgment against Louis Henes, the question involved in these appeals is whether ch. 334, Laws of 1897, as applied to the facts stated, is unconstitutional, as impairing the obligation of the contracts contained in the notes and warrants of attorney upon which the judgments above ■set forth were entered; the assignee claiming that this statute is a permitted change of the existing remedy, while the plaintiff bank claims that the statute is a law impairing the obligation of these contracts, and its substantial rights under 'them, and…
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