State v. Stone

Decided January 15, 1878

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1878-01-15

ON EXCEPTIONS from the Circuit Court for Dane County. In May, 1874, a complaint was entered in tbe municipal court of tbe city of Madison, charging the defendant with a misdemeanor in receiving, as agent of tbe Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company at Madison, compensation for the carriage of a certain person on said company’s road from Madison to Janesville, at a greater rate than that prescribed by tbe statute. Secs. 2 and 6, cli. 273 of 1874.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1971

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Decided 1878-01-15

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Ryan, C. J.

¶1The penalty and the prosecution went with the repeal of the statute. Rood v. Railway Co., ante, p. 146. All the exceptions in the court below were therefore well taken; and the defendant is entitled to arrest of judgment on the verdict.

¶2By the Court. — Exceptions sustained.