State Ex Rel. Buse v. Drewniak

The ultimate question for determination herein is whether Wartchow and the twenty-one other persons-similarly situated, on whose behalf the petition for relief by a writ of mandamus was filed, are entitled, under sec. 56.08, Stats. 1947, to the relief sought in view of the following facts •alleged in the petition and deemed admitted upon respondent’s motion to quash the alternative writ, to wit:

Wartchow, and said twenty-one other petitioners were found guilty of civil contempt by the circuit court for Milwaukee county, and the judgment entered on July 25, 1947, to that effect provided, in…