State ex rel. Boysa v. Fritz

At an early day this court held that 'it was the general policy of the law to allow a party against whom judicial proceedings were commenced to stay proceedings under the decision of an inferior tribunal against him, from which he has appealed, on giving just and adequate security. Hudson v. Smith, 9 Wis. 122. This court said, on p. 127:

“There are many authorities which hold a different doctrine, some of which were cited on the argument. But if in this conflict we look at the nature and object of an appeal, it seems to us that these support the rule that it works a stay of proceedings. In…