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THE

MONTHLY LAW REPORTER.

MAY, 1856.

THE WISCONSIN ELECTION CASE.

AN experienced legal practitioner of our acquaintance was wont to assert that business comes to the profession in veins, as it were, large amounts of similar business at

once.

One year is fruitful in insurance causes, he would say; the next perhaps in disputed land titles, and a third in controversies involving constitutional law.

If such a classification be possible, we suppose the present year will be known as the year of contested elections. There have been disputes of this sort from Maine to California. From inspectors of elections to judges, nay, to members of congress, governors, and even entire legislative bodies, no one seems to hold his loaf or his fish this year by an unquestioned title.

These causes, political or quasi political in their nature, are not always decided in the courts of law, and when they are, it is no matter of congratulation to the profession. We consider them the greatest strain upon the sheet anchor of the judiciary.

The parties in such causes appear as champions, with their merits heralded in advance by the newspapers, with their compurgators about them, and fortunate it is for judges and juries who are called upon to decide between such rivals, if they escape becoming to some extent involved in the heat and smoke of the battle, in the opinion of partisans, at least, if not in fact.

In Maine, the question who should have the right to serve

VOL. IX. NO. I. —NEW SERIES.

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