Rayson v. Horton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oneida county: Chables Y. BabdeeN, Circuit Judge. This action was commenced in the municipal court of Oneida county, to foreclose a laborers lien against certain railroad ties, etc., in that county, for work and labor performed thereon by the plaintiff.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Oneida county: Chables Y. BabdeeN, Circuit Judge. This action was commenced in the municipal court of Oneida county, to foreclose a laborers lien against certain railroad ties, etc., in that county, for work and labor performed thereon by the plaintiff. The defendants appeared in the action, and from a judgment rendered therein against them they appealed to the circuit court for Oneida county, and thereupon moved that court to change the place of trial of the action to Price county, on the ground that they were then, and at the time the action…
1Opinion of the CourtPinney, J.
The statute (sec. 2624, S. & B. Ann. Stats.) makes it the duty of the circuit court to “ change the place of trial of any action commenced before a justice of the peace or municipal court by process personally served, or wherein the defendant shall enter his appearance in such justice or municipal court, and pending upon appeal, to the *369circuit court of the county in which, the defendant resides, upon his motion made at the first term at which the action shall be noticed for trial, if it shall be shown that he was, when the action was commenced, a resident of such county.” The application in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Van Kleck v. HanchettWisconsin Supreme Court · 1881