Smith v. State

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided December 20, 1968

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1968-12-20

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2017

2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“the court is equally divided on the question of whether the published decision of the court of appeals . . . should be affirmed or reversed.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Home Valu, Inc. v. Pep Boys

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Decided 1968-12-20

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Per Curiam.

¶1 Mr. Justice Connor T. Hansen having taken no part in the decision upon this writ of error to review the judgment and the other members of the court being equally divided on the question of whether the judgment should be affirmed or reversed, Mr. Chief Justice Hallows, Mr. Justice Wilkie, and Mr. Justice Heffernan being of the opinion that the judgment should be reversed or a new trial ordered, and Mr. Justice Beil-fuss, Mr. Justice Hanley, and Mr. Justice Robert W. Hansen being of the opinion that the judgment should be affirmed, the judgment appealed from is affirmed under the rule.

¶2 Judgment affirmed.

Connor T. Hansen, J., took no part.