Baxter v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ORIGINAL ACTION TOR MONET CLAIMED. The facts in this case will be readily gathered in the following opinion, and in the same case reported in 9 Wis., 38.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Paine, J.
After the demurrer to the complaint was overruled, the Attorney General filed an answer, containing a general denial of all the allegations of the complaint, and several other defenses, among which was the statute of limitations. The counsel for the plaintiff has moved to strike out the general denial, and filed a demurrer to the rest of the answer.
The motion to strike out is based on the assumption that a general denial is a mode of pleading authorized only by the code, and that the code does not apply to suits against the state. We think, however, that it does, except…
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