State Ex Rel. Holmes v. Krueger

Upon this appeal the defendant contends: (1) That sec. 38.25, Stats., is void because it is a grant of extra compensation by the legislature to public servants after the services have been rendered and to public contractors after the contracts have been entered into, in violation of sec. 26, art. IV of the Wisconsin constitution; (2) that sec. 38.25 is invalid in that it is an attempt to take public property .for a private purpose; (3) that the contracts which sec. 38.25 attempts to create are void for lack of adequate consideration; and (4) that sec. 38.25 violates the equal-protection…