Case ID: wis_15/html/0445-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Dixon, O. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State vs. Ives. State vs. Goodrich.
    May 15.
    Under the Revised Statutes of 185S, a party who has suffered judgment by default before a justice of the peace, has the right of appeal. Forbes m. Turner, 14 Wis., 622, followed.
    APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County.
    
      L. B. Caswell, for' appellant.
   By the Court,

Dixon, O. J.

Civil actions commenced before a justice of the peace, to recover the forfeiture prescribed by section 7, chap. 175, laws of 1860, for keeping dogs not registered, numbered, described and licensed according to the provisions of that act. R S., chap. 155, sec. 1. Judgments by default before the j ustice, for the forfeiture and costs, and appeals by the defendants to the circuit court. The circuit court dismissed the appeals because there was no demurrer, answer or issue in either case before the justice. Appeals to this court from those orders. The cases are governed by Burnham v. Turner et al., 14 Wis., 622, and the orders must be reversed, and causes remanded for further proceedings according to law.

Ordered accordingly.