State ex rel. Board of Education v. Hunter
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. YiNje, Circuit Judge. This was an action of mandamus, brought against the city treasurer of the city of Superior for the purpose of compelling him to set aside out of the taxes to be collected by him for the year 1900 certain amounts for school purposes.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. YiNje, Circuit Judge. This was an action of mandamus, brought against the city treasurer of the city of Superior for the purpose of compelling him to set aside out of the taxes to be collected by him for the year 1900 certain amounts for school purposes. The petition for the writ, which was filed January 80,1901, after alleging the corporate character of the board of education, and its duties with reference to the schools under the charter of the city of Superior (ch. 152, Laws of 1889), further alleges, in substance, that…
1Opinion of the CourtWixslow, J.
By the charter of the city of Superior (ch. 124, Laws of 1891), the board of education of the city is made a body corporate, and endowed with authority to manage and control the public schools of the city, and for that purpose to levy all necessary taxes. These taxes are *586collected by the city treasurer in the same roll and under the same warrant as other general taxes. The city treasurer is made the treasurer of the- board of education, and is required to receive all the public school funds, whether raised by the state, the county, the city, or district, as a separate fund, and pay the same…
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