Court Opinion

ID: 6683866
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 21:31:21.96367+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:00:54.556578
License: Public Domain

Kellam, J.
I express no opinion upon the independent proposition, that the statutes of a foreign state will be presumed to be the same as those of the forum. I concur, however, in the decision of the case. It is the duty of courts to sustain as valid and binding the deliberate agreement of parties, until some reason is shown against it. Assuming that in the absence of evidence, the courts of this state may not know what the statute law of Wisconsin is, or indulge any presumptions in regard to it, it still remains a fact that the laws of Wisconsin may be such as to allow or authorize a contract like this, and the court ought to treat the contract as valid, until it is affirmatively shown that the laws of that state do not allow it.