State ex rel. Arnold v. Common Council
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: A. II. Keid, Judge. Proceedings to remove the relator, Louis A. Arnold, from the office of tax commissioner of the city of Milwaukee, which •office he held for a definite, fixed term.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: A. II. Keid, Judge. Proceedings to remove the relator, Louis A. Arnold, from the office of tax commissioner of the city of Milwaukee, which •office he held for a definite, fixed term. Five separate charges were brought before the common council of the city of Milwaukee against the relator for malfeasance in office, the first ■of which reads as follows: “That Louis A. Arnold, as tax commissioner of the city of Milwaukee, has violated the spirit and the letter of the civil .service law in the matter of discharges of persons under…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed May 1, 1914:
ViNJE, J.
Two main questions are raised upon the appeal of the relator.' First, Did he have the hearing which the charter of the city of Milwaukee and the law provide for; and if so, second, Did the evidence in any reasonable view *509thereof sustain tbe finding of the common council affirmed by the circuit court ?
Sec. 7 of ch. XIX of the city charter provides that “a majority of all the members-elect of the common council shall have power to dismiss from office, for malfeasance in office in said city, any person elected or'appointed to office in said…
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