they worked ther problems out by themselves,or went to arbitration.
moreover, judges simply locked the right degree of business sense
they were trained in law,not in business
certainly not in the details and jargon of thousand fileds and trades
this lack was not immediately apparent.Of 206 contract cases decided by the Wisconsin supreme court,roughly in the decade before 1860,fiftyfour dealt with land
most of these concerned horse,sheep,oxen,and the cash crop,wheat,rather than manufactured goods
the thirty labor cases also arose out of simple situations. There were thirtyone cases on credit and finance,mostly about the ubiquitous bills and notes,and the sureties who signed them.