Case ID: wis_173/html/0328-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Eschweiler, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Will of Saveland.
    
      January 13
    
    February 8, 1921.
    
    
      Appeal and error: Affirmance by divided court.
    
    Where the justices of the supreme court are equally divided in opinion on the question involved on an appeal, the judgment appealed from will be affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Gustave G. Gehrz, Circuit Judge.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    For the appellant there was a brief by Simmons & Walker of Racine, and oral argument by John B. Simmons.
    
    For the respondents there was a brief by Lawrence A. Olwell, attorney, and dwell, Durant & Brady, of counsel, all of Milwaukee; and the cause was argued orally by Lawrence A. dwell.
    
   Eschweiler, J.

The judgment of the court below affirmed a judgment of the Milwaukee county court construing certain provisions of a will.

Upon the hearing here Mr. Justice Kerwin did not participate. Mr. Justice Vinje, Mr. Justice Rosenberry, and Mr. Justice Jones are of opinion that the judgment should be affirmed; Mr. Chief Justice Siebecker, Mr. Justice Owen, arid the writer that it should be reversed. Under the rule it must therefore be affirmed.

By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.