IN RE FOLSOM


270 Wis. 100 (1955)

IN RE FOLSOM: GREEN LAKE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Appellant, vs. HENNINGER and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

May 3, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by J. L. McMonigal, district attorney, attorney, and the Attorney General and William A. Platz, assistant attorney general, of counsel, and oral argument by Mr. Platz.

No brief or appearance for the respondents.


BROWN, J.

We are extremely reluctant to determine constitutional questions at all upon presentation of only one side of the question and still more reluctant to hold an act of the legislature unconstitutional, even by affirmance of a trial court, when the party alleging the unconstitutionality offers nothing in support of his contention. Under such circumstances we will not attempt to determine the merits of the proposition...

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