State ex rel. Blaine v. Erickson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mandamus to compel the town clerk of Oakland, Douglas county, to use reassessment rolls as required by sec. 1087 — 57, Stats., in making his tax roll.
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Mandamus to compel the town clerk of Oakland, Douglas county, to use reassessment rolls as required by sec. 1087 — 57, Stats., in making his tax roll. The petition alleges that the defendant, Carl Erickson, is now and at the times stated herein was town clerk of the town of Oakland, formerly named South Range, in Douglas county; that the reassessment of certain property in said town for the year 1918 was made pursuant to statute and the order of the tax commission, and a reassessment roll of said town was made and completed and delivered to defendant as such town clerk on October 28, 1918,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 2, 1919:
Rosenberry, J.
The defendant objects to this court taking jurisdiction of this action, for the reason that the questions involved are purely local and that the remedy in the lower courts is adequate. In the Income Tax Cases, 148 Wis. 456, 134 N. W. 673, 135 N. W. 164, the court carefully reviews the provisions of the constitution, the statutory law, and the decisions of this court relating to the exercise *214of-its original jurisdiction by this court, and we shall not attempt a restatement of the matters there considered and stated. ' From the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State ex rel. Bolens v. FrearWisconsin Supreme Court · 1912
- Stahl v. O'MalleyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
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