Case Name: Dorothy, Appellant, vs. Richmond, Respondent
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1900-10-12
Citations: 107 Wis. 652
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dorothy, Appellant, vs. Richmond, Respondent.
Judges: Cassoday, O. J., took no part.
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 652–653

Head Matter:
Dorothy, Appellant, vs. Richmond, Respondent.
September 27
October 12, 1900.
Appeals from justice's court: Trials de novo: Review of orders of justice of the peace.
Where a plaintiff has appealed from a final judgment rendered in justice’s court, dismissing the action for noncompliance with an order requiring security for costs, and made the affidavit entitling him to a new trial, the filing of the record irrthe circuit court gives pendency to the action in that court, where it is entitled to a trial on the merits, and the propriety or impropriety of the justice’s action in ordering security for costs, or dismissing the action for noncompliance with such order, is not the subject of review.
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Polk county : A. J. Yinje, Circuit Judge.
Reversed.
Plaintiff sued defendant in justice’s court upon a contract ■demand of $100. Upon appearance of the parties, security •for costs was demanded, and ordered by the justice, and peremptorily refused by the plaintiff, whereupon the action was dismissed. Plaintiff, within the time limited by law, .gave due notice and affidavit for appeal to the circuit court for Polk county, accompanied by an affidavit for trial de novo, in compliance with sec. 3768, Stats. 1898. .At the first term after filing the return on said appeal, namely, on the 12th day of September, 1899, with no intermediate steps, of record, an order was entered dismissing the appeal, with $10 costs, from which order the plaintiff appeals.
The cause was submitted for the appellant on the brief of H. P. Burdich, and for the responden t on that of Hits-P. Haugen.

Opinion:
Dodge, J.
The case of Steinam v. Schulte, 83 Wis. 567, is conclusive of the question here presented. The plaintiff had appealed from a final judgment, and made affidavit entitling him to a new trial, so that the question of the propriety or impropriety of the justice's action in ordering security for costs, or in dismissing the action for noncompliance therewith, was not the subject of review. Upon the appeal being perfected in the manner prescribed by the statute, the filing of the record in the circuit court gave pendency to the action in that court, where it was entitled to a trial on the merits. The considerations urged by respondent, of hardship to him, are matters for the legislature, but cannot justify disobedience of their behests by the court. If security for costs was-necessary to defendant's protection, he had an easy remedy, by application to the circuit court, under sec. 2942, Stats. 1898.
By the Gourt.— The order appealed from is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings according to law.
Cassoday, O. J., took no part.