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STATE v. STEHLEK

262 Wis. 642 (1953)

STATE, Appellant, vs. STEHLEK, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

January 6, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there were briefs by the Attorney General and Stewart G. Honeck, deputy attorney general, and William J. McCauley, district attorney of Milwaukee county, Joseph E. Tierney, deputy district attorney, and James J. O'Donnell, assistant district attorney, and oral argument by Mr. Honeck and Mr. O'Donnell.

Michael D. Preston of Milwaukee, for the respondent.

A brief was filed by Glenn W. Stephens of Madison, Charles C. Collins and Ross D. Netherton, both of Washington, D. C., and Joseph H. Braun, Hugh Neill Johnson, and Philip E. Ryan, all of Chicago, Illinois, as amici curiae.

FRITZ, C. J.

An examination of the statutes of the forty-eight states in the United States discloses that all have some type of safety-financial responsibility law regarding the operation of motor vehicles, and that forty-one states have substantially the same provisions as are in the "safety responsibility law" of the Wisconsin statutes, sec. 85.09 (5) (a) to (16) (c); and one state, Massachusetts, has a wholly compulsory automobile insurance law for accidents involving...

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