E. Harold Hallows
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The Honorable E. Harold Hallows | |
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_portrait,_circa_1969.jpg) portrait photograph, circa 1969 | |
| 20th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court | |
| In office January 1, 1968 – August 1, 1974 | |
| Preceded by | George R. Currie |
| Succeeded by | Horace W. Wilkie |
| Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court | |
| In office May 1, 1958 – August 1, 1974 | |
| Appointed by | Vernon Wallace Thomson |
| Preceded by | Roland J. Steinle |
| Succeeded by | Roland B. Day |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Emery Harold Hallows April 20, 1904 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | September 11, 1974 (aged 70) |
| Cause of death | Leukemia |
| Spouse |
Mary Vivian Hurley
(m. 1930; died 1973) |
| Children | Joseph, Mary |
| Alma mater | |
| Profession | Lawyer, judge |
Emery Harold Hallows (April 20, 1904 – September 11, 1974) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 20th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, from January 1968 until his resignation in August 1974.
Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Hallows graduated from Marquette University and received his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Hallows practiced law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and taught at the Marquette University Law School.[1] In 1958, Hallows was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and became chief justice of the court in 1968 serving until his retirement in 1974.[2][3]
Hallows won elections to his seat on the court in 1959 and 1969.
Hallows authored the Court's opinion in the influential case Breunig v. American Family Insurance Company,[4][5] which established the rule that a sudden mental incapacity, of which the defendant had no foreknowledge, was an adequate defense to tort liability. This rule is often known as the Breunig exception.[6]
