State ex rel. Wasserman v. O'Brien

Stevens, J.(1) Relator had no right to offer oral proof on the trial of the issues presented by this action. “The relator who selects certiorari as his method of review and remedy subjects himself to having his rights decided upon such statement of facts as the return may make, if so responsive.” State ex rel. Gray v. Oconomomoc, 104 Wis. 622, 627, 80 N. W. 942. The return “imports absolute and complete verity, so far as it is responsive to the writ; and neither the allegations of the petition nor of the writ can serve to supply other facts merely because they are not traversed or otherwise…