State ex rel. Small v. Bosacki
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Oneida county: ByeoN B. Paek, Judge. ' Action of quo warranto to try defendant’s title to tbe office of clerk of tbe town of Minocqua for the year 1912. Tbe trial court found that at tbe town election of April 2, 1912, tbe relator and defendant were opposing candidates for tbe office of town clerk for tbe ensuing year; that 257 votes were cast for said office, 131 of wbicb were cast for tbe defendant and 126 for tbe relator;…
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Oneida county: ByeoN B. Paek, Judge. ' Action of quo warranto to try defendant’s title to tbe office of clerk of tbe town of Minocqua for the year 1912. Tbe trial court found that at tbe town election of April 2, 1912, tbe relator and defendant were opposing candidates for tbe office of town clerk for tbe ensuing year; that 257 votes were cast for said office, 131 of wbicb were cast for tbe defendant and 126 for tbe relator; that tbe board of canvassers made a statement of tbe canvass of said election in accordance with tbe votes cast as above…
1Opinion of the CourtYistje, J.
It is claimed the trial court erred in finding that the presence of the fifteen men in the town of Minocqua was solely for the purpose of logging and not as permanent residents of the- town; and in holding that they were not legal voters of the town.
No extended discussion of the evidence is necessary to show that the trial judge correctly found that the men in *477question were not permanent residents of the town. True, they were all unmarried, hgd no other place which they claimed as a home, and ate, slept, and kept their clothing in the logging camp. But they had no intention of remaining in…
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