Single v. Supervisors of Marathon County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from, the Circuit Court for Marathon County. The board of supervisors of Marathon county, at a meeting thereof held March 15, 1878, by resolution duly adopted, directed its chairman and clerk to execute a contract on behalf of such county with the Wisconsin Valley Railroad Company, in and by which the county should agree, on certain conditions (one of which was, that the company should construct its railroad from Centraba in Wood county to Wausau in Marathon county,…
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APPEAL from, the Circuit Court for Marathon County. The board of supervisors of Marathon county, at a meeting thereof held March 15, 1878, by resolution duly adopted, directed its chairman and clerk to execute a contract on behalf of such county with the Wisconsin Valley Railroad Company, in and by which the county should agree, on certain conditions (one of which was, that the company should construct its railroad from Centraba in Wood county to Wausau in Marathon county, by a day therein specified), to subscribe for 250 shares of the capital stock of such company, the par value of which was…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
For the purposes of these appeals it will be assumed that the proceedings of the board of supervisors on ■the 15th of March and the 4th of September were without authority of law, and, but for the legislation of 1874, that the same are entirely void. We are thus brought at once to consider and determine the validity and effect of that legislation.
1. It is claimed that ch. 7, Laws of 1874, is void because the subject thereof is hot expressed in the title, as required by the constitution, art. IV, sec.-18. The question as to what is a sufficient entitling of a private or. local act, was much…
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