Hungerford v. Cushing
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP DANE COUNTY. This is an. appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Dane county, denying the petition of the defendants for a change of venue. The causes assigned for the change of venue were: 1. The prejudice of the judge. 2. That, the judge was interested in the suit. 3. That the judge had been of counsel for the complainant.
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APPEAL IN EQUITY PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP DANE COUNTY. This is an. appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Dane county, denying the petition of the defendants for a change of venue. The causes assigned for the change of venue were: 1. The prejudice of the judge. 2. That, the judge was interested in the suit. 3. That the judge had been of counsel for the complainant. The petition and affidavits in its support are very voluminous, setting out a large mass of facts and circumstances ; but as the court decided that, so far as the cause for a change of venue referred to the prejudice of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Oourt,
Whitoh, G. J.
This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Dane county, denying a motion for a change of venue in the case. The petitions which were filed in the court below, set out three causes for the change, viz: the prejudice of the judge; that the judge had been of counsel for the complainant, and that he was interested in the cause. In order to show clearly the nature of the various questions involved, it may be well to quote at length the statutes under which this application is made. Section one, of chapter ninety-five, of the Revised Statutes, is as follows :
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