E. Harold Hallows
Emery Harold Hallows 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.
Biography
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. 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.Hallows won elections to his seat on the court in 1959 [Wisconsin Supreme Court election|1959] and 1969 [Wisconsin Supreme Court election|1969].
Hallows authored the Court's opinion in the influential case Breunig v. American Family Insurance Company, 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.