Case Name: Fisher v. Chase
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1850-01
Citations: 2 Pin. 359
Docket Number: 
Parties: Fisher v. Chase.
Judges: 
Reporter: Pinney
Volume: 2
Pages: 359–360

Head Matter:
Fisher v. Chase.
1. Practice — default.—Where a demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration is overruled, he cannot regularly have his damages assessed until the defendant’s default for want of a plea is entered; and the defendant having filed a plea before the assessment of damages and before the entry of his default, a judgment on such assessment was reversed.
(2 Chomd. 3.)
ERROR to the late District Court for Bock County.
The defendant in the court below demurred to the whole ■ declaration, and, on argument, that court overruled the de murrer, and thereupon the plaintiff below assessed his damages without having entered the defendant’s default, or any rule for the assessment. The defendant below filed an issuable plea, before the assessment of the plaihtiff’s damages, and the case comes here for the alleged error of assessing the damage saffcer plea put in. •
J. II Knawltan, for plaintiff in error.
J. A. Sleeper, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Larrabee, J.
The record in this cause shows that a writ of inquiry was awarded, and the plaintiff's damages assessed, without a default having been first entered against the defendant. It also appears that after the demurrer was overruled, the defendant filed a plea of the general issue. There is nothing to show that this plea was not properly filed, and an issue formed. Yet, notwithstanding this state of facts, a writ of inquiry was awarded, and damages assessed.
The judgment of the district court must be reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.
Judgment reversed.