Halsey v. Waukesha Springs Sanitarium, 128 Wis. 438

Halsey v. Waukesha Springs Sanitarium

128 Wis. 438 | Wis. | 1906

Siebeckee, J.

One of the questions presented by the former appeal was the amount defendant should be allowed against the claim made by the plaintiff as a credit for the failure to furnish a mixing table according to the specifications. Under the decision rendered therein by this court it became necessary to determine whether or not defendant was entitled to a credit for this table, which credit had not been allowed by the plaintiff under the demand of his complaint. This court, in passing on that question in the former decision, said:

“The .item of $150 deduction for a mixing table, rejected by the architect as not in accord with specifications, cannot be allowed, although there is much evidence to dispute the architect’s decision. On that subject he did act within his agreed jurisdiction, and his ruling is conclusive. There is no evidence to support any other deductions from the amount demanded by the complaint.”

*440In actions of this kind it is clearly tbe well-established rule that, where the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded to the trial court for further proceedings and to render judgment in favor of a party in accordance with the opinion in the cause, it has no authority to reframe the pleadings as to any issue and retry them. The only course open to it is to render judgment in accordance with the opinion of this court. Whether the judgment was rightly or erroneously pronounced is no longer debatable, and for the purposes of the case all questions involved in it are irrevocably settled. The circuit court clearly exceeded its authority in permitting the pleading to be amended and in retrying this question. Whitney v. Traynor, 76 Wis. 628, 45 N. W. 530; Ean v. Chicago, M. & St. P. R. Co. 101 Wis. 166, 76 N. W. 329; Ledebuhr v. Wis. T. Co. 115 Wis. 214, 91 N. W. 1012; Bostwick v. Mut. L. Ins. Co. 122 Wis. 323, 99 N. W. 1042.

By the Court. — The part of the judgment appealed from is reversed, and the cause remanded with directions to the court to enter judgment in accordance with the opinion of this court upon the former appeal in this action.