Becker v. Green County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Green county: George Grimm, Circuit Judge. Action by plaintiff, to recover his salary as county judge of Green County during the time he was suspended from that office by reason of his erroneous conviction under the federal espionage act.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Green county: George Grimm, Circuit Judge. Action by plaintiff, to recover his salary as county judge of Green County during the time he was suspended from that office by reason of his erroneous conviction under the federal espionage act. On the 6th day of August, 1918, the plaintiff was the county judge of Green County for the term ending January 5, 1920. On that date he was convicted in the United States court for the Western district of Wisconsin of a violation of the espionage act (Act of Congress approved June 15, 1917) and sentenced to…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed October 18, 1921:
Owen, J.
No mistake-proof system of administering justice has yet been devised, nor is it likely to be as long as the element of human judgment enters into the scheme. The innocent will be punished and the guilty will escape. We contemplate this fact with regret, but nevertheless the fact exists. No one is in a position to realize this better than the plaintiff himself, who during many years has occupied an honorable and prominent position in the judicial system of this state. Although he has suffered most grievously by reason of the error…
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