Stamper v. Hopkins

The following opinion was filed March 11, 1924:

Owen, J.

Sub. (2), sec. 1223, Stats., authorizes town boards of supervisors “to provide machinery, implements, stone, gravel and other material on such terms as may seem proper, and hire such machinery, laborers and animals as may be required to make, build, pave and repair highways and bridges.” In Indiana R. M. Co. v. Lake, 149 Wis. 541, 136 N. W. 178, it was held that this statutory provision authorizes the town board to purchase machinery only when the electors have made provision to meet the expenditure and have in fact or in effect…