Warner v. Board of Supervisors
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court for Outagamie County. The case is stated by the court. The circuit judge refused to give the jury the following instructions asked by he defendant : “ 1st. If you find from the evidence that all the proceedings were regular up to the time of the sale, the county treasurer had authority to sell the lands in question. 2d.
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APPEAL from the County Court for Outagamie County. The case is stated by the court. The circuit judge refused to give the jury the following instructions asked by he defendant : “ 1st. If you find from the evidence that all the proceedings were regular up to the time of the sale, the county treasurer had authority to sell the lands in question. 2d. Payment of the bid by the purchaser is subsequent to and no part of the sale: and the county treasurer could have sued the purchaser therefor on his refusal or neglect to pay the same, and could have recovered the same and ten per cent, damages.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Downer,, J.
The respondent presented to the appellant an account or claim for moneys paid at tax sales for tax certificates, and for deeds on some of them, and recording the same, and interest on the sums paid, and asked that the amounts so paid, with interest, might be refunded to him, for the reason that the sales were void. The board of supervisors appointed a special committee to investigate and report upon this claim. The committee reported advising the board of supervisors to reject the account. The board adopted the report, and Warner took his appeal to the circuit court,…
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