Marquardt v. Milwaukee County

¶ 24. (dissenting). Deciding Marquardt's appeal last year, we recognized the legislative objective of Wis. Stat. § 102.57, and how Milwaukee County's denial of Marquardt's claim for the fifteen percent penalty under the statute defeated that objective:

Extending our analysis in our "quest to identify and give effect to the legislature's intent,"... we travel an easy road, paved by our supreme court many years ago. In Daniels v. Industrial Comm'n, 214 Wis. 2d 649, 6 N.W.2d 640 (1942), the supreme court explained the purpose of Wis. Stat. § 102.57: "The legislative objective is plainly to put…