Crane v. City of Janesville
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAR from the Circuit-Court for Rode County. This action was brought against the City of Janesville and the treasurer thereof, to restrain the sale of lot 78 in Smith, Bailey & Stone’s addition to said city, for the taxes of 1854 ’55, ’56 and ’57, re-assessed in 1862 under ch. 48, Laws of 1862. The facts found by the circuit court are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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APPEAR from the Circuit-Court for Rode County. This action was brought against the City of Janesville and the treasurer thereof, to restrain the sale of lot 78 in Smith, Bailey & Stone’s addition to said city, for the taxes of 1854 ’55, ’56 and ’57, re-assessed in 1862 under ch. 48, Laws of 1862. The facts found by the circuit court are sufficiently stated in the opinion. Judgment for the plaintiffs; and defendants appealed. to the point that plaintiffs •were-estopped by their own neglect to have lot 78 assessed to them after the notice required by sec. 3, ch. 48, Pr. & L. Laws of 1862, had…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The court below found as facts that the re-assessed taxon lot 78 for the year 1857 was not paid; that for that year *306tbe lot was assessed with lot 76, and a gross sum of about $130 was set opposite tbe two lots in tbe re-assessment; tbat they were botb assessed to A. Hyatt Smith, but be did not own lot 78 in 1857, and never owned it; and tbat tbe two lots bad always been owned by different persons. We do not understand tbat tbe correctness of tbis finding was seriously controverted; and we think it fully warrants tbe judgment rendered in tbe cause. In tbe case of The State ex rel. Roe v.…
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