The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-02-21
New Rules for the First Wiscon.
sin Circuit to Apply at the
Coming March Term
CRIMINAL CASES FIRST HEARD
Many Changes Are Made in the Meth
DDS to be Employed in the Cir
cult Court-Attorneys Must
Observe Rules

Judge E. B. Belden has notified
Clerk of the Circuit Court Frank
Waldo that the new rules for the
First Wisconsin circuit will go into
effect with the opening of the March
term of the Circuit Court, and Clerk
Waldo has been directed to have the
new rules published in the calendar
for the term. The first of the new
rules provides that papers filed in the
court shall be gotten up in way to
make them 1egible to the parties in
terested, and if such is not the case,
the clerk of the court may decline to
file the papers. The attorneys are
given the right to remove papers from
the court, but they may not be kept
for a period longer than ten days, and
they must be IN court at the request
Of the presiding judge. All papers
must be in the hands Of the clerk at
| least one day before the regular terms
are opened.
A new order for the trial of cases is
established by the rules. Criminal
cases will be tried first in the future,
and will be followed by issues of fact
for the jury, issues of fact for the
court, and issues of law. No case
will be placed on the calendar until it
has been properly noticed for trial,
and the state tax on all cases must be
paid at the time they are noticed for
trial. The clerk is directed not to
notice any cases unless the tax is paid.
Under the new rules the jury will
not be called until the afternoon of
the first day of the term, the morning
session being given over to the as
signing of cases for trial and the
hearing of ex-parte motions. The
criminal cases and the first six civil
cases will be called for the first day of
the term, and other cases will be
called in the order that they appear on
the calendar.
There is one rule that makes it OBJ
| 1igatory for all actions brought by at
torneys to be publicly announced be-
fore theylare heard by the court, and
nothing is to be taken up unless it is
SO announced. Motions for continu-
ance OF cases are to be taken up on
the first day of the term, and no mo-
ton for continuance will be granted
unless the attorney seeking such
action shall pay into the court the fee
! of $40. Continuance from day to
day will be permitted only on the
payment of fee of SIS for each day
continued, and this fee shall go to the
opposing attorney.
Special instructions to the jury will
be received by the court only before
the argument of the case in question
is begun, and when instructions are
| asked the attorneys must cite their
authorities for such instructions.
There are many provisions in regard
to divorce cases. All actions for di-
vorce must be heard in open court
and the fees for the clerk and for the
reporter are to be paid at the same
time. Witnesses must be secured 10
prove the factseof all divorce actions,
and the simple testimony of plain
tiff will not be sufficient, except in
cases where cruel and inhuman treat
ment is alleged.
There isAone new rule which makes
it impossible to give out to the public
the evidence in sensational divorce
cases, as it is held that no officer of
the court shall give such evidence to
any one except one of the parties at
issue or an officer of the court. No
evidence in divorce actions will be
heard until the parties at issue show
a receipt in court of the payment of
money to insure the payment Of all
fees.
The new rules will make radical
changes in trials of cases in this cir
cult, and the attorneys have been no.
tilted that the rules will be rigidly en-
forced.