SIMPLIFIED CIVIL PROCEDURE UNDER THE WISCONSIN CODE

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Abstract

A rare illustration of the possibility of simplified procedure, under the modern codes, is presented by a recent decision of the Wisconsin court. Singularly enough the case was also productive of some very interesting problems of substantive law, and will be commented upon, from that standpoint, elsewhere in this publication. As for the fact situation, it will be sufficient for our present purposes, to note that the plaintiff was injured, while riding as a guest, as the result of a collision occasioned by the negligent driving of her host and the operator of another automobile. The guest and the driver of the other car, whom we may call A, and, upon the latter's motion, the host, B, was brought in as a defendant. The three parties interested in the transaction were thus in court. The ultimate judgment combined direct relief for the plaintiff against the original defendant, A, with affirmative relief-on the theory of the right to contribution-for A against B to the amount of one-half of the damages assessed against the former. Mitchell v. Raymond (Wis. 1923) 195 N. W. 855. It will be interesting to note, briefly, how such results are made possible.

Recommended Citation

SIMPLIFIED CIVIL PROCEDURE UNDER THE WISCONSIN CODE, 22 Mich. L. Rev. 828 (1924).
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