Case Name: Saunders, Appellant, vs. Johnson, City Clerk, Respondent
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1943-05-18
Citations: 243 Wis. 96
Docket Number: 
Parties: Saunders, Appellant, vs. Johnson, City Clerk, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 243
Pages: 96–97

Head Matter:
Saunders, Appellant, vs. Johnson, City Clerk, Respondent.
April 12
May 18, 1943.
The cause was submitted for the appellant on the brief of John Garvin of Ashland, and for the respondent on the brief of W. H. Cate, city attorney.

Opinion:
Fairchild, J.
No authority has been cited and we are unable to discover any allowing the city clerk to withhold the pension mon'ey on his own initiative, even though he is thus attempting to pay a debt of the pensioner. Until he is presented with a judgment constituting a valid claim under sec. 304.21, Stats., he has no alternative but to pay the money due to the appellant. It was, therefore, error to quash the alternative writ of mandamus.
By the Court. — Judgment reversed.