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REUTER v. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

No. 288.

43 Wis.2d 272 (1969)

168 N.W.2d 860

REUTER and another, Appellants, v. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Division of Resource Development, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 27, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there were briefs and oral argument by Willis J. Zick of Waukesha.

For the respondent the cause was argued by Steven M. Schur, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Robert W. Warren, attorney general.

A brief amicus curiae was filed by Shea, Hoyt, Greene, Randall & Meissner, attorneys, and Ralph J. Ehlinger of counsel, all of Milwaukee, for the Audubon Wild Land Foundation of Wisconsin, Inc.

ROBERT W. HANSEN, J.

This appeal brings with it wide-ranging arguments covering a broad area of legislative public concern—but it involves only a narrow question of judicial interpretation of statutory construction.

The Department of Resource Development was created by ch. 614, Laws of 1965, a comprehensive act to protect the waters of the state, to ". . . serve as the central unit of state government to protect, maintain and improve the quality and...

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