Legal Opinion
Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus for Walter J. Sawyer. Walter J. Sawyer v. Max A. Barczak, Sheriff of Milwaukee County
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 1, 1956No. 11464_1PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAIM, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for release from state imprisonment.
The petitioner, Walter J. Sawyer, was an automobile dealer in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His garage was located on property to which the city had taken title in order to widen the street on which the garage faced. The project as originally proposed called for the destruction of the Sawyer garage. The plan was eventually changed so that the block in which Sawyer’s garage is located was widened on one side only, thereby allowing the garage to…
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