State Ex Rel. Friedrich v. Circuit Court for Dane County

This court accepted jurisdiction over the issue raised in the Friedrich-Porter petition for a writ of mandamus relating to the compensation of court-appointed guardians ad litem in Dane county. We also accepted the petition in Schwiesow for supervisory jurisdiction of the motion for contempt pending before Norman L. Yackel, presiding circuit judge for Bayfield county, relating to compensation of a court-appointed special prosecutor. We have consolidated these two matters because they present the same question of law: In enacting statutes fixing the amount of compensation to be paid from…