State ex rel. Smythe v. Milwaukee Independent Telephone Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an. order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. This is an action by the state of Wisconsin on the relation of Ernest E. Smythe to oust the defendant from exercising certain franchises and privileges. The relator is a resident, elector, and taxpayer of the city of Milwaukee. The defendant is a corporation organized under ch. 86, Stats.
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Appeal from an. order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. This is an action by the state of Wisconsin on the relation of Ernest E. Smythe to oust the defendant from exercising certain franchises and privileges. The relator is a resident, elector, and taxpayer of the city of Milwaukee. The defendant is a corporation organized under ch. 86, Stats. (1898), and has for one of its purposes the construction, maintenance, and operation of a public telephone exchange and system in the city of Milwaukee. On April 30, 1906, the Milwaukee Telephone Company, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Siebecicek, T.
This action is instituted on the relation of’ a resident and taxpayer of the city of Milwaukee to oust the defendant from the exercise of public rights, privileges.. *593and functions wbicb it is exercising in conducting a telephone business in tbe city of Milwáukee, and wbicb ostensibly were granted it by tbe city and accepted by tbe defendant. Tbe material provisions of tbe ordinance involved in tbis action are given in tbe foregoing statement of facts. Tbe various provisions of tbe ordinance bave been examined with much care to determine their nature and legal effect for tbo…
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