Sullivan v. Ashland Light, Power & Street Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Ashland county: Q. N. Risjord, Circuit Judge. Action for an accounting and full relief in respect to a contract plaintiff claims to bave made witb A. E. Appleyard. Tbe latter was made defendant witb others alleged to be aiders and abettors in depriving plaintiff of bis rights.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Ashland county: Q. N. Risjord, Circuit Judge. Action for an accounting and full relief in respect to a contract plaintiff claims to bave made witb A. E. Appleyard. Tbe latter was made defendant witb others alleged to be aiders and abettors in depriving plaintiff of bis rights. Among defendants are three corporations referred to as Street Railway Company, Power Company, and Ironwood & Bessemer Company, Appleyard being tbe general manager and in control through ownership of stock in his own name and the names of his co-individual defendants. The…
1Opinion of the CourtMabshall, J.
On tbe subject of sufficiency it matters not what kind of a cause of action, by name, within the broad meaning of “a civil action” the pleader attempted to state, or whether he attempted to state more than one cause of action. It was not essential that he should do more than to state concisely the facts constituting his claim for redress; that is the civil wrong he believed had been caused to him. Neither was it essential that he should ask for the proper relief,— - only that he should ask for such relief as he supposed him-' self entitled to. Sec. 2646, Stats. Neither any misstatement as to…
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