Cross v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This was an action to cancel a certificate of sale of lot seven and the south one-third of lot eight in block seven of the city of Milwaukee.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This was an action to cancel a certificate of sale of lot seven and the south one-third of lot eight in block seven of the city of Milwaukee. The complaint alleges that the plaintiffs are now the owners of said lots, and in possession of them ; that the plaintiff Cross owned them during the whole of the year 1857, and has ever since owned them, or some interest in them; that in the assessment roll or tax list of the city of Milwaukee and the county of Milwaukee for 1857, said lots were valued and taxed separately, to-wit: lot seven was…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
In principle this case is not distinguishable from that of Tallman v. The City of Janesville, 17 Wis., 71. It is said that there was an entire new assessment roll made out in this case for the years 1856 and 1857, and that this circumstance takes it out of the doctrine of Tallman’s case. The assessors were to take the rolls for those years made by the former assessors, and correct them so that they should be as nearly accurate as possible. They were to supply omissions in those rolls, where property had been omitted, and correct the valuation when too high or too 'low, so…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Tallman v. City of JanesvilleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1863
- Hart v. PlumCalifornia Supreme Court · 1859
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