State ex rel. Sleeman v. Baxter

Superior is a city of the second class. For many years it has been operating under the commission form of government. On the 5th day of May, 1927, there was filed in the office of the city clerk a petition duly and sufficiently signed, under the provisions of sec. 63.15, Stats., to arouse the duty of the mayor to submit to the electors the question, “Shall the council of the city of Superior be increased from a mayor and two councilmen to a mayor and one councilman from each ward,” in accordance with the provisions of sec. 63.15 of the Statutes, and to call a special election upon such…