STATE v. ALLIED CHEMICAL & DYE CORP.


9 Wis.2d 290 (1960)

STATE, Appellant, v. ALLIED CHEMICAL & DYE CORPORATION and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

February 2, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant the cause was argued by George F. Sieker, assistant attorney general, and John R. Devitt, assistant corporation counsel of Milwaukee county, with whom on the briefs were John W. Reynolds, attorney general, and Robert J. Vergeront and Albert O. Harriman, assistant attorneys general, attorneys, and William J. McCauley, district attorney of Milwaukee county, and C. Stanley Perry, corporation counsel, of counsel.

For the respondents there was a brief by Fairchild, Foley & Sammond of Milwaukee, for the Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation; by Michael, Spohn, Best & Friedrich of Milwaukee, for the Dow Chemical Company; and by Wood, Brady, Tyrrell & Bruce of Milwaukee, for the Wyandotte Chemicals Corporation; and oral argument by Steven E. Keane, David E. Beckwith, T. L. Tolan, Jr., and Kenneth K. Luce, all of Milwaukee.


BROADFOOT, J.

Each side cites and relies upon several cases decided by both federal and state courts. The state relies in particular upon certain language in Leader Theatre Corp. v. Randforce Amusement Corp., 186 Misc. 280, 58 N. Y. Supp. (2d) 304, and Commonwealth v. McHugh, 326 Mass. 249, 93 N.E.2d 751. It further relies heavily on certain decisions of the United States supreme...

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