Punches v. Schmidt, 645
| Decision Date | 30 June 1976 |
| Docket Number | No. 645,645 |
| Parties | Jerry James PUNCHES, Respondent, v. Wilbur SCHMIDT, director of the Wisconsin State Department of Social Services, and Sanger B. Powers, administrator of the Division of Corrections of the Wisconsin Department of Social Services, Appellants. (1974). |
| Court | Wisconsin Supreme Court |
Appeal from a judgment and order of the county court of St. Croix County; Joseph W. Hughes, County Judge.
Bronson C. La Follette, Atty. Gen., Charles R. Larsen and James H. McDermott, Asst. Attys. Gen., and oral argument by Marguerite Moeller, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellants.
Doar, Drill, Norman & Bakke, New Richmond, and oral argument by Thomas D. Bell, New Richmond, for respondent.
The members of the court being equally divided on the question of whether the judgment and order should be affirmed or reversed, Mr. Chief Justice Beilfuss, Mr. Justice Hanley, and Mr. Justice Robert W. Hansen being of the opinion that the judgment should be reversed, and Mr. Justice Heffernan, Mr. Justice Connor T. Hansen, and Mr. Justice Day being of the opinion that the judgment should be affirmed, the judgment appealed from is affirmed under the rule.
Judgment affirmed.
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