Case Name: JASON DOWNER, Complainant, vs. STAINES & COOPER, Defendants
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1856-06
Citations: 4 Wis. 372
Docket Number: 
Parties: JASON DOWNER, Complainant, vs. STAINES & COOPER, Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 372–372

Head Matter:
JASON DOWNER, Complainant, vs. STAINES & COOPER, Defendants.
APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM THE DANE CIRCUIT COURT.
Illegibility of a bill in chancery is not a cause of demurrer. The proper course is, if the fact exist,, to move to strike the bill from the files.
DbmurRER to the complainant’s bill on the ground that it was illegible. Demurrer sustained, and the complainant appealed.
J. Downer, for the complainant.
Abbott and Petherick, for defendants.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Whitoet, O. J.
The sole cause of demurrer to the bill of complaint is, that it is illegible. We do not think this a ground of demurrer. If the fact alleged as a cause of demurrer exists, the defendant should have moved in the court below to strike the bill from the files.