State ex rel. City of South Milwaukee v. Fowle
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: Geo. E. SutheelaNd, Judge. By sec. 98, cb. 281, Laws of 1897, the existing village of South Milwaukee, containing more than 1,500 inhabitants, was erected into a city of the fourth- class, controlled! by the general charter law (ch. 326, Laws of 1889, as amended [now ch. 40a, Stats. 1898]), and patent issued July 6,1897, and on September 4th a board of education was duly elected.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: Geo. E. SutheelaNd, Judge. By sec. 98, cb. 281, Laws of 1897, the existing village of South Milwaukee, containing more than 1,500 inhabitants, was erected into a city of the fourth- class, controlled! by the general charter law (ch. 326, Laws of 1889, as amended [now ch. 40a, Stats. 1898]), and patent issued July 6,1897, and on September 4th a board of education was duly elected. Within the limits of the village was school district No. 1, and also free high-school district No. 1, coterminous in extent and governed by a…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The single question presented in this case is whether, upon a statutory creation of a city of the fourth class out of a formerly existing village, the government and administration of a high school therein devolves upon the board of education provided for by the general city charter *390(secs. 925 — 113 to 925 — 116, Stats. 1898). In State ex rel. McCann v. Enos, 97 Wis. 164, it is decided that, where a village becomes a city under the provisions of the general charter, its schools are to be governed by a board of education ; that such city erected out of a village is not one of those' which, by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State ex rel. McCann v. EnosWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
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