State ex rel. Rowell v. Dick
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mandamus to James J. Dick, judge of tbe circuit-court for Dodge county. Tbis is an original application to tbis court to change tbe venue in tbe action herein mentioned.
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Mandamus to James J. Dick, judge of tbe circuit-court for Dodge county. Tbis is an original application to tbis court to change tbe venue in tbe action herein mentioned. It appears from tbe return to tbe alternative writ of mandamus that on or about November 1, 1895, James J. Dick, as attorney for tbe plaintiffs, commenced an action in the circuit court for Dodge •county, wherein John S. Rowell and Mary Rowell, bis wife, were plaintiffs, and Samuel W. Rowell and bis wife, Tbeo-dore B. Kowell and Ms wife, Mary 1. Rowell, J ennie B. Row-ell, Walden T. Rowell, Edla E. Rowell, and Clarence I.…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, C. J.
In denying tbe application to change tbe venue tbe learned trial judge filed a written opinion, wbicb was presented on tbe application for tbe writ and also embodied in tbe return to tbe writ. Tbe principal ground for refusing tbe application is that it was not made by tbe plaintiff in tbe action commenced July 30, 1904, nor by all tbe defendants in that action; and bence was not authorized by tbe statute, wbicb, among other things, declares, in effect, that:
“Whenever tbe judge . . . has been of counsel for either party, tbe court or tbe presiding judge thereof shall, upon application of…
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