Case ID: wis_201/html/0076-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Crownhart, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Estate of Byrne: Dollard and others, Appellants, vs. Minahan and others, Respondents.
    
      December 3, 1929
    
    March 4, 1930.
    
    For the appellants there were briefs by McGovern, Curtis, Devos & Reiss of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Francis E. McGovern.
    
    
      E. D. Minahan of Rhinelander, for the respondent Elizabeth Minahan.
    
      W. K. Parkinson of Phillips, for the respondents Jane Gallet and Mary Flynn.
    
      For the respondents James P. Traynor and others there was a brief by Thompson, ■Hessian & Fletcher of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
   The following opinion was filed January 7, 1930:

Crownhart, J.

There being one vacancy, only six members of the court participated in the decision of this case. The members of the court are equally divided in opinion upon the questions presented upon this appeal. Mr. Justice Owen, Mr. Justice Stevens, and Mr. Justice Fowler are of the opinion that the judgment should be reversed. Chief Justice Rosenberry, Mr. Justice Fritz, and the writer are of the opinion that the judgment should be affirmed. Under the well established rule it follows that the judgment appealed from is affirmed.

By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.

A motion for a rehearing was denied, with $25 costs, on March 30, 1930.