Webster-Glover Lumber & Manufacturing Co. v. St. Croix County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for St. Croix County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday : “The plaintiff owned a large quantity of land in the town of Emerald, in the defendant county. The taxes assessed against these lands in the year 1888, for all purposes, were in the aggregate $2,143.05.' The plaintiff is a corporation, and a nonresident of the town, and brought this suit to restrain the collection of such taxes, and to have the .same adjudged null and void.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for St. Croix County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday : “The plaintiff owned a large quantity of land in the town of Emerald, in the defendant county. The taxes assessed against these lands in the year 1888, for all purposes, were in the aggregate $2,143.05.' The plaintiff is a corporation, and a nonresident of the town, and brought this suit to restrain the collection of such taxes, and to have the .same adjudged null and void. “ Upon the hearing, the court, among other things, found, in effect, (2) that the town was composed of two government…
1Opinion of the CourtGassoday, J.
The attempt to appeal from the mere findings or conclusions of law of the trial court was nugatory. Johannes v. Youngs, 42 Wis. 401; Nevil v. Clifford, 51 Wis. 483. An appeal to this court by a party aggrieved must be from a judgment or such an order as is defined in sec. 3069, B. S., as being appealable. Sec. 3048, B. S.; McGregor v. Pearson, 51 Wis. 122.
But the order staying proceedings was appealable. The appeal from it, however, only brings before us for review the question whether the assessment of the real estate in the town for the year 1883 was void, and should be set aside for…
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