President of the Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank v. Griffith
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN EQUITY FROM MILWAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. The complainants filed their bill in this cause on the third day of September, 18.49, and the defendants, being all non-residents, it was taken pro confesso, for the want of appearance.
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APPEAL IN EQUITY FROM MILWAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. The complainants filed their bill in this cause on the third day of September, 18.49, and the defendants, being all non-residents, it was taken pro confesso, for the want of appearance. The defendant, David H. Griffith, on the 15th day of September, 1851, presented to the Circuit Court a petition for leave to file his answer, which was granted by that court on the 15th day of May, 1852, and thereupon he filed his answer, to which the complainants replied, and the cause came on to be heard on bill and answer, and replication and proofs, before the…
1Opinion of the Court
By t\e Gourt,
Smith, J.
The defendant, David IT. Griffith, appeals from the order of the Circuit Court made in the above entitled cause, after it had been submitted upon final argument by both parties.
It seems the case had been regularly brought to a final hearing, and proofs taken, in open court; the *446cause elaborately argued and fully submitted; after which, instead of making a final decree, the court “ remanded the case to the files,” &c.
"We are left wholly in the dark in regard to the vjew which the Circuit Court took of the case, and the reasons which induced such order. It does not appear…
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