Case Name: Dewald, Appellant, vs. Dewald, Respondent
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1895-02-05
Citations: 89 Wis. 353
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dewald, Appellant, vs. Dewald, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 89
Pages: 353–353

Head Matter:
Dewald, Appellant, vs. Dewald, Respondent.
January 8
February 5, 1895.
Pleading: Appealable order.
An order denying a motion to strike out a part of the answer as scandalous, irrelevant, and redundant, is not appealable.
Appeal from an order of the superior court of Milwaukee «county: J. C. Ludwig, Judge.
Dismissed.
Divorce action., Tbe complaint charged cruel and in-ihuman treatment and failure to support. The answer, ¡after denying the allegations of the complaint, alleged, in 'substance, that the plaintiff was the defendant’s housekeeper, and induced the defendant to cohabit with her, and thereafter induced and entrapped the defendant into marrying ¡her, upon a false claim that she was pregnant by him, and for the purpose .only of acquiring his property and deserting him. A motion to strike out this latter part of the an.swer, as scandalous, irrelevant, and redundant, was denied, ¡and the plaintiff appealed.
Eor the appellant there was a brief by Sylvester & Scheiber, .and oral argument by F. Scheiber.
For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of F. J. Lemiaheck.

Opinion:
WiNslow, J.
The order appealed from is not appealable. It affects no substantial right, and does not involve the merits of the action. This was decided in Kewaunee Co. v. Decker, 28 Wis. 669, and no discussion of the question is necessary.
By the Court.— Appeal dismissed.