City of Beaumont v. Priddie

On Appellants’ Motion for Rehearing.

Upon the question of our construction of the Beaumont charter, appellants, citing the case of Schmidt v. Milwaukee, 149 Wis. 367, 135 N. W. 883, 888, say: “Strange as it may seem, this opinion is rendered by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and reaches a contrary conclusion to that reached by the same court in the Roemer and Kaiser Cases.”

The following circumstances would render it strange indeed if there were any real conflict in these decisions. The Schmidt opinion was delivered April 23, 1912. A shade less than a year later (April 8, 1913) the Roemer opinion…