State ex rel. School District No. 8 v. Cary
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. TueNee, Circuit Judge. The superintendent of schools for Milwaukee county applied .to G. P. Gary, state superintendent of schools, to have an inspection made of the Thirty-sixth street and State street schools of district No. 8 in the town of Wauwatosa, Milwaukee county, with a view of having both buildings condemned. An inspector was directed by Mr. Gary to view the buildings and make report.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. TueNee, Circuit Judge. The superintendent of schools for Milwaukee county applied .to G. P. Gary, state superintendent of schools, to have an inspection made of the Thirty-sixth street and State street schools of district No. 8 in the town of Wauwatosa, Milwaukee county, with a view of having both buildings condemned. An inspector was directed by Mr. Gary to view the buildings and make report. Such inspection was made and on January 31, 1916, the inspector gave to the clerk, of the school district a written notice…
1Opinion of the CourtEsci-iweeler, J.
The defendant, state superintendent of schools, on this appeal contends for two propositions, viz.: first, that he has the power under the statutes hereinafter cited to condemn and order discontinuance of the use of a schoolhouse such as he held the Thirty-sixth street school to be; and second, that he is authorized to withhold the seven-tenths mill tax from this school district so long as it does not comply with his order to build a new schoolhouse in place of the one so condemned.
Sec. 517, Stats., entitled “Inspection of school buildings,” provides for inspectors of public school buildings…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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