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TAYLOR v. STATE HIGHWAY COMM.

No. 131.

45 Wis.2d 490 (1970)

173 N.W.2d 707

TAYLOR, Appellant, v. STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION and another, Respondents: ALSMEYER and another, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided February 3, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was submitted for the appellant on the briefs of Edna E. Taylor of Madison, pro se, and for the respondents on the brief of Robert W. Warren, attorney general, and Richard E. Barrett and Benjamin Southwick, assistant attorneys general.

ROBERT W. HANSEN, J.

The chronology of events in the record of this case raises the question, not whether the action should have been dismissed when it was, but why it was not dismissed earlier for the evident failure to diligently seek its trial and disposition.

The circuit court rested its dismissal of this action on three foundations: (1) Sec. 269.25, Stats.;1 (2) sec. 270.54;

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