Prairie Grove Cheese Manufacturing Co. v. Luder
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: Robeet G. SiebbcKER, Circuit Judge. Tbe plaintiff, a domestic corporation, sued tbe defendant in justice’s court for a balance alleged to be due of $68.98 upon tbe sale of 8,729 pounds of cheese at eleven cents per pound. Tbe defendant filed a general denial and pleaded payment.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: Robeet G. SiebbcKER, Circuit Judge. Tbe plaintiff, a domestic corporation, sued tbe defendant in justice’s court for a balance alleged to be due of $68.98 upon tbe sale of 8,729 pounds of cheese at eleven cents per pound. Tbe defendant filed a general denial and pleaded payment. Tbe evidence upon tbe trial before the justice showed that on December 11, 1899, tbe plaintiff bad on band at its factory* eleven tubs of September cheese, which was slightly damaged, and on that day made an oral sale thereof to the defendant at eleven cents…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed February 18, 1902:
WiNsnow, J.
Sec. 3512, Stats. 1898, defines and limits the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, and provides, among other things, that a justice shall have jurisdiction over:
“(1) Actions arising or growing out of contract express or implied, wherein the debt or balance due or damages claimed shall not exceed two hundred dollars. (4) Actions founded on any account when the amount of the plaintiff’s account, proven to the satisfaction of the justice, shall not exceed five hundred dollars and when the samé shall be reduced to an amount not…
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