Hayes v. Douglas County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: R. D. Maeshall, Circuit Judge. This is an action to set aside certain taxes and assessments, and a tax sale and tax certificate in which the taxes and assessments resulted. The tax certificate is upon eighty acres of unplatted land in the city of Superior, owned by the plaintiff, and described as the E. \ of the ET.
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Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: R. D. Maeshall, Circuit Judge. This is an action to set aside certain taxes and assessments, and a tax sale and tax certificate in which the taxes and assessments resulted. The tax certificate is upon eighty acres of unplatted land in the city of Superior, owned by the plaintiff, and described as the E. \ of the ET. E. J of section ETo. 23, in township ETo. 49 ET., of range ETo. 14 "W. In the year 1892 .this tract of land ivas sold by the treasurer of ’ Douglas county, for taxes and assessments which were delinquent upon the tax…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 17, 1895:
Newman, J.
The point made against the general tax is not, indeed, that it was not authorized to be levied at all, but that it was not authorized to be levied in the manner in which it was levied, nor unless the item criticised — that is, the item “ $61,000, general fund ”— should be included, with a detailed statement of the items which enter into it, in the general statements required to be made and filed by the board of public works and by the city comptroller. It is urged that this detailed statement is a necessary prerequisite to a valid…
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