State Ex Rel. Department of Agriculture v. McCarthy

From the petition and the return and the records filed in this court, a regrettable state of affairs is disclosed. It appears that the action in which the Quaker Dairy Company is defendant was set for trial on April 19, 1941. Prior to' the date of trial the defendant dismissed its attorneys and retained Mark Catlin, Jr., an attorney at law then .serving as assemblyman at the regular session of the 1941 legislature. Mr. Catlin appeared as attorney for the defendant and in the exercise of the right conferred upon him by sec. 256.13, Stats., demanded an adjournment of the trial pending the…