State ex rel. Cuppel v. Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe County Court of Milwatücee County. The board of directors of the defendant chamber of commerce having suspended the relator, a member of the chamber, from the privileges of membership, for nonpayment of a penalty imposed upon him for an alleged violation of one of the rules of the chamber, the relator sued out of the circuit court an alternative writ of mandamus, commanding the respondents to restore him to membership or show cause to the contrary.
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APPEAL from tbe County Court of Milwatücee County. The board of directors of the defendant chamber of commerce having suspended the relator, a member of the chamber, from the privileges of membership, for nonpayment of a penalty imposed upon him for an alleged violation of one of the rules of the chamber, the relator sued out of the circuit court an alternative writ of mandamus, commanding the respondents to restore him to membership or show cause to the contrary. On motion of the attorney for all the respondents, founded upon the affidavit of Langson, the secretary, and ex officio a…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
We think the plaee of trial was regularly changed from the circuit to the county court, and that the latter court had jurisdiction of the case, langson, who made the affidavit for such change, was the secretary and a director of the chamber of commerce, and a defendant in the action. He swears in such affidavit that he makes the same, and prays for the change, on behalf and at the request of all the defendants; and all of them moved, by their attorney, for such change! The case is clearly within the rule of Wolcott v. Wolcott, 32 Wis., 63, and Rupp v. Swineford, 40 Wis., 28.
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2Cases cited12 opinions
- State ex rel. Cothren v. LeanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1859
- People ex rel. Rice v. Board of TradeIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
- Wolcott v. WolcottWisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
- Baxter v. Board of TradeIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
- Sturges v. Board of TradeIllinois Supreme Court · 1877
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