State v. Campbell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
BEPOETED from the Circuit Court for La JLayette County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cole, in his opinion as originally prepared: “ An information was filed by the district attorney in December, 1876, charging that on the 28th day of November, 1876, the defendant, then and there being county treasurer of La Eayette county, and, by virtue of his office, entrusted with the collection, safe-teeping, receipt, transfer and disbursement of the taxes, revenues, fines and…
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BEPOETED from the Circuit Court for La JLayette County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cole, in his opinion as originally prepared: “ An information was filed by the district attorney in December, 1876, charging that on the 28th day of November, 1876, the defendant, then and there being county treasurer of La Eayette county, and, by virtue of his office, entrusted with the collection, safe-teeping, receipt, transfer and disbursement of the taxes, revenues, fines and other money, belonging to said county, did convert to his own use a part, to wit, the sum of $9,269.82 thereof, and did…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
To the first question we are constrained to give an affirmative answer, in obedience to the rule of construction which this court has often recognized, that where a later statute revises the subject matter of a former statute, it becomes a substitute for the former and works its repeal. Lewis v. Stout, 22 Wis., 234; Burlander v. Railway Co., 26 id., 76; Simmons v. Bradley, 27 id., 689; Moore v. R. R. Co., 34 id., 173; Oleson v. Railway Co., 36 id., 383. The learned counsel who argued this case on both sides do not differ as to the correctness of this rule, but disagree as to its applicability…
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