Savage v. Carney
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL EHOM MILWAUKEE COUNTY COURT. This was an action of unlawful detainer brought by the appellant against the respondent, in a justice’s court of Milwaukee county.
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APPEAL EHOM MILWAUKEE COUNTY COURT. This was an action of unlawful detainer brought by the appellant against the respondent, in a justice’s court of Milwaukee county. The complaint alleges that Elisha Eldred being in possession of a certain piece of land situated in the city of Milwaukee, viz : (describing the same) — leased said premises by instrument in writing to Cornelius Davis, for the term of five years from the first day of May, 1855. That Davis covenanted, among other things, to pay Eldred, for the use of said premises, forty-eight dollars per year, in equal portions, on the first…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
This was an action brought under chapter 177 of the Revised Statutes of 1859, entitled “ Of forcible entries and unlawful detainers.”
Chapter 88 of the Revised Statutes of 1849 has no relation to the jurisdiction. of justices of the peace, as prescribed *165therein, to cases wherein the title to land may come in question, comprised within chapter 117.
The constitution prescribes the jurisdiction of justices of the peace as follows: “The justices thus elected shall have such civil and criminal jurisdiction as shall be prescribed by law.5’
It was competent for the legislature to…
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