72 Wis. 179 | Wis. | 1888
The counsel for the appellant insists that the circuit court had no power to require the plaintiff to give security for costs. But this is a mistake. Sec. 2942, R. S., confers ample authority upon the court for that purpose. The same counsel further says that this provision does not apply, because the court ordered security for costs to.be given at the. request or on the motion of the defendants. We suppose that, generally, security is ordered to be given on the application of the defendant. The court does not usually require it of its own motion. The order wa,s a discretionary one, and we see no ground for saying the court w'as guilty of an abuse of its discretion in making it.
Again, it is said the judgment should be reversed on account of irregularity in entering it. The alleged irregularity was the failure of the defendants to serve notice of application for judgment. It appears that on the 15th of
The last point relied on to set aside the judgment is that proper notice of the taxation of costs was not given. The record shows that a motion was heard by the circuit court on the 21st of May, 1887, to set aside the taxation of costs, and to vacate the judgment entered on such taxation; and that on the same day the defendants’ attorney gave the plaintiff’s attorney notice that they consented in writing to a retaxation of the costs at any date and at any hour, the plaintiff might see fit to name, either before the clerk of the court or before the court itself, and offered to remit from the judgment for costs any items which the clerk or court should determine to be improper and not taxable. Here
By the Court.— The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.