State ex rel. Wildman v. Kidd
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Gramt County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday: “ Mcmdamus. The defendants made return or answer to the relation, and the relator replied to the return.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Gramt County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday: “ Mcmdamus. The defendants made return or answer to the relation, and the relator replied to the return. Upon the issues thus formed, the cause was tried by the court; and from the facts admitted in the pleadings and found by the court, and the evidence, it, in effect, appears: “ That during the times in question the relator and the defendants were each and all supervisors of the town of Glen Haven, and together constituted the town board of that town. That prior to April 23, 1881, there was in…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
No question is made as to tbe regularity of any of tbe proceedings in dividing tbe old district or in tbe organization of tbe new. Tbe $800 wbicb tbe old district resolved to borrow prior to tbe division was not borrowed until after tbe division. Tbis being so, tbe district bad not, by vote prior to tbe division, contracted a debt for tbe same witbin tbe provisions of sec. 412, E. S., and bence there was no impediment to tbe division at tbe. time it was made.
Tbe only question presented for consideration is whether new district No. 3 is barred of all right to any of tbe property belonging to…
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