City of Madison v. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

This is the third time in recent years that the so-called Monona Terrace controversy has been brought to the supreme court. In 1957 the court ruled in Madison v. State, 1 Wis. (2d) 252, 83 N. W. (2d) 674, that the city of Madison could constitutionally proceed with the construction of a civic center and auditorium at the Monona Terrace site using Lake Monona frontage filled in as per authority granted by ch. 301, Laws of 1931.

After the so-called Metzner Act was adopted by the 1957 session of the legislature, 2 effectively prohibiting the erection of the civic center and auditorium on that…