Case ID: wis_188/html/0653-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

City of Barron and another, Appellants, vs. Industrial Commission of Wisconsin and others, Respondents.
    
      December 11, 1925
    
    January 12, 1926.
    
    
      Appeal and error: Affirmance by divided court.
    
    Where the Justices of this court are equally divided in opinion on the question involved in an appeal, the judgment appealed from will be affirmed.
    Appeal from á judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    For the appellants there was a brief by uarles, Spence & Quarles, attorneys, and Arthur B. Doe and Kenneth P. 
      
      Grubb, of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Doe.
    
    For. the respondent Industrial Commission there was a brief by the Attorney General and Mortimer Levitan and Suel 0. Arnold, assistant attorneys general, and oral'ar- • gument by Mr. Arnold.
    
    For the respondent Barron Woolen Mill. Company there' was a brief by Charles A. Taylor of Barron.
   Per Curiam.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county confirming the award of the Industrial Commission in favor of the defendant Warren Taft and against the plaintiffs. Upon consideration of the case here, the Chief Justice deeming himself disqualified, the remaining six members are equally divided in opinion as to whether the judgment should be affirmed or reversed. Under the rule, this situation results in an af-firmance of the judgment.

Judgment appealed from is affirmed.