State ex rel. Carey v. Ballard
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Apteal from an order of tbe municipal court of Outa-gamie county: JoiiN Goodlaxd, Acting Judge. This is a mandamus action to compel tbe defendants as members of tbe town board of Grand Cbute, "Wisconsin, to levy a tax of $4,800 on tbe taxable property of tbe town to pay tbe town’s share of the estimated cost to improve certain highways according to the provisions of ch.-337, Laws of 1911, and acts amendatory thereto.
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Apteal from an order of tbe municipal court of Outa-gamie county: JoiiN Goodlaxd, Acting Judge. This is a mandamus action to compel tbe defendants as members of tbe town board of Grand Cbute, "Wisconsin, to levy a tax of $4,800 on tbe taxable property of tbe town to pay tbe town’s share of the estimated cost to improve certain highways according to the provisions of ch.-337, Laws of 1911, and acts amendatory thereto. On August 14, 1913, there were served on the members of the town board of Grand Chute three petitions, signed by three separate groups of freeholders of Outagamie county,…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
The question presented is, Do the provisions of sub. 3 of sec. 1317m — 4, Stats. 1913, delegate the legislative power to levy a tax to any group of freeholders of' a county who may desire “the improvement of a portion of' the system of prospective state highways,” and if so, is it in violation of the constitutional .provision vesting the legislative-power in a senate and assembly? By this section of the-statutes it is enacted:
“If any town shall fail to appropriate at its annual meeting a sum requiring a tax of three mills on the dollar of its assessed valuation for any of the purposes…
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