State Ex Rel. City of Madison v. Bareis

The order and judgment under review were based upqn the court’s decision sustaining the city clerk’s contentions, — upon his motion to quash the alternative writ of mandamus, — that the proposed bond issue is invalid as a mortgage bond issue against the city’s water works system, because the issue is not within the purposes for which utility mortgage bonds may be issued under sec. 3 of art. XI, Wis. Const.; and that as an issue of general' obligation bonds of the city it is invalid, because not supported by a direct annual tax, as required by said sec. 3. On the other hand, the city’s first…