WILMOT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DIST. v. ROTHWELL


27 Wis.2d 228 (1965)

WILMOT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellant, v. ROTHWELL, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

March 30, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Kelly & Richter and Robert T. Richter, all of Burlington, and Heide, Sheldon, Hartley & Thom and William A. Sheldon, all of Kenosha, and oral argument by William A. Sheldon.

For the respondent the cause was argued by Harold H. Persons, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general.


CURRIE, C. J.

The appeal to defendant state superintendent by the 22 aggrieved electors of the area sought to be attached was taken fifty-seven days after the denial of the petition by the municipal boards and seventy-six days after the filing of such petition. The issue before us is whether the appeal to defendant was taken within the time prescribed by statute for taking such an appeal. If the appeal to defendant was not timely taken, defendant had no jurisdiction...

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