Eau Claire County v. Milwaukee County

The issue on this áppeal is whether the evidence at the hearing before the department established as a matter of law that Mrs. Carden had gained a legal settlement, under sec. 49.10 (4), Stats. 1955,1 in Milwaukee at the expiration of the one-year period beginning April 27, 1956, when she first commenced to reside there.

In two well-considered decisions of this court authored respectively by Mr. Justice (later Chief Justice) Brown and Mr. Justice Wingert it was held that the term “residence” as used in sec. 49.10, Stats. 1955, was the equivalent of domicile. Carlton v. Department of Public…