Orton v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This action was instituted in this court, by If. R. Orton and Geo. M Bryant, under the statute concerning “ actions against the state,” to recover for services as attorneys in defending certain actions brought against the school land commissioners in this court. The case is stated sufficiently in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
This is an action to recover the value of certain legal services alleged to have been performed by the plaintiffs for and on behalf of the state. They state, in substance, in the complaint, that they were employed in the year 1857, by the then school land commissioners, to defend certain suits therein mentioned, commenced and prosecuted against such commissioners in their official character. The attorney general has demurred to the complaint, on the ground that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. And we have, therefore, to determine whether…
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