Case Name: DOWNER, Complainant, Appellant, vs. STAINES, Defendant, Appellee
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1856
Citations: 5 Wis. 159
Docket Number: 
Parties: DOWNER, Complainant, Appellant, vs. STAINES, Defendant, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 159–159

Head Matter:
DOWNER, Complainant, Appellant, vs. STAINES, Defendant, Appellee.
APPEAL nr EQTJITX PROM THE LANE CHtOUIT COURT.
The illegibility of a bill of complaint is not a canse of demurrer. The proper remedy is to move to strike the bill from the flies.
DemubbeR to a bill of complaint on tbe ground that the bill was illegible. The demurrer was sustained, the bill dismissed, and the complainant appealed.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Whitoít, 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.