Witt v. Witt

The issue before us on this appeal is whether the provisions of sec. 330.18 (4), Stats., are applicable to an action for annulment of marriage based upon the alleged insanity of one of the parties at the time of such marriage. Such statute provides a ten-year statute of limitations with respect to “An action which, on and before the twenty-eighth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, was cognizable by the court of chancery, when no other limitation is prescribed in this chapter.”

In the absence of any special statute conferring power on the courts to exercise…