Town of Yorkville v. Fonk

In Des Jardin v. Greenfield (1952), 262 Wis. 43, 53 N. W. (2d) 784, we declared that the same principles of constitutionality apply to trailer ordinances that apply to zoning ordinances. The source of the power of the legislature to authorize their enactment is dependent on the same general police power.

The power to pass ordinances must be reasonably exercised but within the field delegated it may go to the boundaries of reason and within that field the municipality’s discretionary power is supreme. C. Beck Co. v. Milwaukee (1909), 139 Wis. 340, 348, 120 N. W. 293. When a municipal body…