State, Department of Public Safety v. Hanson

These matters originated in the County Courts of Yellow Medicine and Stearns Counties in proceedings to test the proposed revocation of the drivers’ licenses of the three respondents by the commissioner of public safety under Minn. St. 169.123, the implied-consent law. In each proceeding the county court sustained the commissioner. The respondents each appealed to the appropriate district court where the matter was placed on the jury calendar for trial.

In each case the state moved the district court prior to the hearing for an order striking the matter from the jury calendar and setting the…