171 Wis. 91 | Wis. | 1920
The following opinion was filed January 13, 1920:
This case is in all respects similar to the case of Frontier M. Co. v. Industrial Comm. 168 Wis. 157, 169 N. W. 312, except that in the last named case no service of the notice of appeal was at any time made on the claimant, while in the present case such service was made after the expiration of the thirty-day period and after the motion to dismiss had been made. It was assumed by counsel and court in the Frontier Case that the notice of entry of judgment served by the attorney general on behalf of the Commission set the thirty-day period in which appeal might be taken in full operation, so that if it was necessary to serve the notice on the claimant personally it must be done within the period. The contention made there was that the attorney general, though appearing for the Commission, in fact represented the claimant as well, and hence that service of notice of appeal on him was in effect service upon the claimant..
In the present case the contention is that the notice of entry of judgment served by the attorney general can only serve to set the thirty-day period running in favor of the Commission, and that, no notice having been served by the claimant, the thirty-day period has never commenced to run in his favor, and hence that both appeals are properly here.
We have given the subject very careful consideration and feel convinced that this contention cannot and ought not to prevail in a case like the present. This is a case where the judgment is a single indivisible proposition in favor of two parties. No part of it could be reversed as to one party and affirmed as to the other it must be affirmed as to both parties or reversed as to both parties. It is not a case where
We have found little authority which throws any light on the subject and have preferred to decide the question upon the evident intent of the statute.
By the Court. — Appeal dismissed without costs.
A motion for a rehearing was denied, without costs, on March 9, 1920.