Burgess v. Dane County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
'Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Dane county: E. C. Higbee, Judge. This is an action to recover fees turned over by tbe plaintiff to tbe defendant while be was its register of deeds, and to recover from it fees due for services rendered as sucb register of deeds. A claim against tbe county was filed by tbe plaintiff, and from a disallowance thereof by tbe county board be appealed to tbe circuit court for Dane Gounty.
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'Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Dane county: E. C. Higbee, Judge. This is an action to recover fees turned over by tbe plaintiff to tbe defendant while be was its register of deeds, and to recover from it fees due for services rendered as sucb register of deeds. A claim against tbe county was filed by tbe plaintiff, and from a disallowance thereof by tbe county board be appealed to tbe circuit court for Dane Gounty. His claim, embodied in a complaint, is as follows: “Now comes S. T. Burgess and hereby makes claim against said Dane Gounty of tbe state of Wisconsin, and in…
1Opinion of the CourtVinje, J.
The trial court sustained the demurrer on the -ground that the complaint did not state facts 'sufficient to constitute a cause of action. It held that the resolution adopted by the county board in 1902 was sufficient to change the method of compensating the registers of deeds thereafter elected, from the fee to the salary system, as authorized by sec. 7645, Stats. (Supp. 1906: Laws of 1901, ch. 410). Plaintiff claims the resolution was insufficient to effect such a change, for two reasons: first, because the duration of such change was by the language of the resolution limited to the term of…
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