State ex rel. Zillmer v. Kreutzberg
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Eeeoe to review an order of the superior court of Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Judge. The defendant in error having been arrested upon a complaint charging him with having unlawfully discharged an employee because said employee was a member of a labor organization, and, upon hearing, having been committed for trial, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus against the sheriff, alleging the illegality of his imprisonment and restraint, for that the act of the legislature…
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Eeeoe to review an order of the superior court of Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Judge. The defendant in error having been arrested upon a complaint charging him with having unlawfully discharged an employee because said employee was a member of a labor organization, and, upon hearing, having been committed for trial, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus against the sheriff, alleging the illegality of his imprisonment and restraint, for that the act of the legislature creating the offense (eh. 332, Laws of 1899) is unconstitutional, because it violates the following provisions of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
In this case we are confronted with that gravest of sociological questions: How far, consistently with freedom, may the rights and liberties of the individual member of society be subordinated to the will of the government? That question has been at war from the very first existence of any form of government. Eor many centuries, while debated as an ethical and philosophical question, it was resolved *532in each instance by force or by the ability to exert force. A little more than a century ago the attempt was made by the American people to define the limits by written contract, and to withdraw…
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