Larson v. State ex rel. Bennett

Lawrence O. Larson, as sheriff of Dane county, sued out this writ of error to review an order of the circuit court for Dane county (Judge Cowie presiding) which discharged the defendant in error, Cornelia Bennett, from his custody, after hearing had on a writ of habeas corpus, granted by August C. PIoppmann, circuit judge. The facts are not in dispute. On May 24, 1934, a judgment of divorce *189was duly rendered in the circuit court for Dane county (A. G. Zimmerman, circuit judge, presiding) in a certain action in which Martin T. Bennett was plaintiff and Cornelia Bennett was defendant. The…