Ryan v. Martin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the County Court for Milwaukee County, overruling the demurrer of the defendant to the plaintiff’s complaint, interposed on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.
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APPEAL from an order of the County Court for Milwaukee County, overruling the demurrer of the defendant to the plaintiff’s complaint, interposed on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The complaint charges, in substance, that on the 3d day of August, 1857, the defendant commenced an action in the district court of the United States for the district of "Wisconsin, on the equity side of said court, in which the said defendant was sole complainant, and one Delorma Brooks was sole defendant ; that the answer of said Brooks in said action was filed…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Dixon, C. J.
In tbis case it was unanimously resolved by tbe court:
1. That however it might have been at the common law, the agreement set forth in the complaint was not champertous under section 214, of the code, (Laws of 1856, chap. 120,) then in force, and which was in these words: “ All statutes establishing or regulating the costs or fees of attorneys, solicitors and counsel in civil actions, and all existing rules and provisions of law restricting or controlling the right of a party to agree with an attorney, solicitor or counsel for his compensation, are repealed; and…
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