A. E. INVESTMENT CORPORATION v. MORE-WAY WEST CORP., 60 Wis.2d 758 (1973)


211 N.W.2d 508

A. E. INVESTMENT CORPORATION, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. MORE-WAY WEST CORPORATION, Defendant and Respondent: MORE-WAY NORTH CORPORATION and others, Intervening Plaintiffs and Respondents: A. E. INVESTMENT CORPORATION and others, Impleaded Defendants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
No. 199.Submitted under sec. (Rule) 251.54 October 3, 1973. —
Decided October 30, 1973.

APPEAL from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: JOHN A. DECKER, Circuit Judge.

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The plaintiff appeals from an order determining that three leases are not void for want of a countersignature by the respective landlords’ corporate secretaries.

For the appellant the cause was submitted on the briefs of Charne, Glassner, Tehan, Clancy Taitelman, S.C., of Milwaukee.

For the defendant-respondent, More-Way West Corporation, and intervening plaintiffs-respondents MoreWay North Corporation and More-Way East Corporation, the cause was submitted on the brief of Foley Lardner, attorneys, and Gilbert W. Church of counsel, all of Milwaukee.

PER CURIAM.

The leases involved in this case are the subject of a counterclaim by defendant More-Way West Corporation and a third-party complaint by the intervening plaintiffs More-Way North Corporation, More-Way South Corporation, More-Way East Corporation, and More-Way Development, Inc. The tenant under each lease, A. E. Investment Corporation, claims that the leases were void under sec. 235.01(5), Stats. 1969, because they were not countersigned by the corporate secretaries of the respective landlords.

The issue was tried separately by stipulation of the parties prior to trial on the merits. The trial court’s order determined that the leases were not void for want of compliance with the statute. The order further provided “This ruling shall not, however, be construed as an interpretation of any rights. that may flow from the leases. . . .” The order is not appealable under sec. 274.33, Stats., and it is not an interlocutory judgment under sec. 270.54. Northland Greyhound Lines v. Blinco (1956), 272 Wis. 29, 74 N.W.2d 796 Glens Falls Ins. Co. v. Concrete Research (1973), 57 Wis.2d 744, 205 N.W.2d 165.

The appeal is dismissed.

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