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64 Wis. 500

Priest v. Varney

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided December 1, 1885

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1885-12-01

The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Oassoday: This action is to recover for services rendered and moneys expended by the plaintiff as attorney for the defendant. The answer denies the extent and value of the services and the amount of money expended. On application of the plaintiff, the court, July 15, 1884, ordered that the issues be referred to a commissioner to hear and decide the whole issue and report thereon to the court.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1886

1 state decisions

Relies on Bunn v. Valley Lumber Co.

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Decided 1885-12-01

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Cassoday, J.

¶1It is competent for a party to waive notice of a motion. An appearance at the hearing generally by an attorney is such waiver. It is competent for a party to waive notice of the papers or records upon which a motion is based. A hearing upon the merits upon an “ inspection of the pleadings” by the court, “and the admission of counsel for the parties that the plaintiff’s bill of items contained seventy items and the defendant’s bill of particulars contained thirty items,” without any objection for want of such notice, was a waiver of notice that such motion would be based upon such pleadings and bills of items and particulars. The recitals in the order of July 15, 1884, of such admissions must, in the absence of a bill of exceptions showing otherwise, be regarded as verities. Bunn v. Valley Lumber Co. 63 Wis. 630. The recitals in that order, as modified, were sufficient to authorize the reference. In fact, the case seems to be a proper one for a reference under the decisions of this court. This being so, the reasons given in the notice to set it aside eleven months afterwards could not exist. It follows that the court was justified in refusing to reconsider its former decision and denying the motion.

¶2By the Court.— Both of the orders of the circuit court are affirmed.

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