Case Name: Troy Carriage Company, Appellant, vs. Bonell and another, Respondents
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1899-03-14
Citations: 102 Wis. 424
Docket Number: 
Parties: Troy Carriage Company, Appellant, vs. Bonell and another, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 102
Pages: 424–426

Head Matter:
Troy Carriage Company, Appellant, vs. Bonell and another, Respondents.
February 23
March 14, 1899.
Appeal: Amount involved.
Where the only controverted question is whether a contract for the sale of three carriages was separable, and the plaintiff therefore entitled to recover $85, the contract price of one of them, without delivery of the others, this court obtains no jurisdiction by an appeal unless accompanied by a certificate of the trial judge as provided in sec. 3047, Stats. 1898.
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau-Claire county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge.
Appeal dismissed.
Action to recover a balance of $199.50 alleged to be due plaintiff from defendants on a sale to the latter of two-carriages. -The answer admitted a purchase from plaintiff and acceptance by the defendants of one carriage, and that there was due thereon $57. It was alleged that another carriage, ordered by defendants of plaintiff, was taken by the former and stored subject to plaintiff’s order, the same not being according to contract; that plaintiff, while the situation indicated existed, contracted to sell the alleged defective carriage to defendants for $85, together with two-others, one for $75 and one for $65; that plaintiff failed to perform such contract by refusing to deliver the two carriages ; that defendants were damaged thereby in the sum of $50; and that on account of such breach defendants refused to carry out the contract on their part as to the $85 carriage, but continued to keep the same in store for plaintiff, to their damage in the sum of $12. Defendants counterclaimed for $62 on the facts stated.
On the trial it was conceded that $63 was due plaintiff for principal and interest on old account. The court decided as a matter of law that plaintiff was not entitled to recover for the $85 carriage and was liable for damages for breach of contract. It was left to the jury to assess such damages and strike a balance between the same and the $63 conceded to be due plaintiff on old account, and to render a verdict accordingly. The result was a verdict for defendants for $21. No contention is made in this court that the damages were improperly awarded to defendants or that the amount assessed was too large. The sole question is, Was-the ruling of the trial court correct as to the contract for the three carriages being entire, so as to preclude plaintiff from recovering for the $85 carriage by reason of the failure to deliver the other two carriages ? Judgment was rendered on the verdict in defendants’ favor, and plaintiff appealed.
Frederick, A. Teall, for the appellant.
For the respondents there was a brief by Wickham & Farr,- and oral argument by James Wickham.

Opinion:
Marshall, J.
The action was on contract. The amount involved, exclusive of costs, as the cause is presented in this court, is $85. Appellant claims that the court erred in holding that the contract to sell and deliver to defendants three carriages was entire. Whether that be right or not rules the question of whether plaintiff is entitled to recover for the one carriage which was delivered to defendants. There is no other controversy on this appeal.
An appeal involving less than $100 exclusive of costs, in such an action as this, is not allowed by statute, except on a certificate submitting to this court, on a statement of facts, difficult questions of law for its decision. Stats. 1898, sec. 3047. If an appeal be taken in a case requiring the certificate mentioned in order to make it appealable, and suck certificate be absent, this court does not obtain jurisdiction to entertain such appeal. Henk v. Baumann, 100 Wis. 28. This appeal comes within that rule and must therefore be dismissed.
By the Oowrt.— The appeal is dismissed.