Phelps v. Rooney
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This case was reported in 9 Wis., 70. On a motion for a rehearing, which was denied, Dixon, C. J. delivered the following dissenting opinion:
1Dissent
Per Dixon, O. J.
As I dissented from the judgment pronounced in this case, so I dissent from the order the appellant’s motion for a rehearing. I am unwilling that anything should transpire, from which my assent to either the judgment or order should he inferred, and having some reasons which I am anxious to urge against both, I avail myself of the opportunity thus afforded for that purpose. On the former occasion (9 Wis., 87), I confined my remarks almost entirely to the words of the statute, endeavoring to show therefrom that the construction given by the majority of the court was false and…
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