Smith v. Board of Trustees of the Wisconsin Veterans' Home
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Waupaca county: John Goodland, Judge. The defendant is a corporation organized for the purpose of establishing and carrying on an institution for the maintenance of destitute soldiers and sailors of the late Civil War and their widows. Its articles of incorporation forbid the payment of dividends.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Waupaca county: John Goodland, Judge. The defendant is a corporation organized for the purpose of establishing and carrying on an institution for the maintenance of destitute soldiers and sailors of the late Civil War and their widows. Its articles of incorporation forbid the payment of dividends. Before the corporation began operation the legislature of Wisconsin provided that when the Home was established and put in operation there should be paid by the state treasurer to the treasurer of the board of trustees of said corporation $3 per week…
1Opinion of the CourtBarnes, J.
If the plaintiff had been in possession of facts which reasonably induced the belief in his mind that the trustee, James, and the matron, Mrs. White, were criminally intimate or were guilty of unbecoming conduct, and complaint had been made in the proper manner and to the proper parties, his conduct might be characterized as courageous and commendable. An institution supported by the bounty of the state should be above suspicion in the respect complained of, and its inmates could ill afford to remain silent if reasonably convinced that it was being used to harbor the mistress *633-of a member of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- State ex rel. Cook v. HouserWisconsin Supreme Court · 1904
- State ex rel. Starkweather v. Common Council of the City of SuperiorWisconsin Supreme Court · 1895
- Cullen v. HanischWisconsin Supreme Court · 1902
- Donkle v. MilemWisconsin Supreme Court · 1894
- Heeron v. BeckwithWisconsin Supreme Court · 1853
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- Board of Commissioners v. DunlapSupreme Court of Colorado · 1928