Johnston v. City of Sheboygan

The appellants urge that sec. 13.14 (1) of the Sheboygan Municipal Code is invalid because it collides with an enactment of the legislature on the same subject, because it is discriminatory in its application, because it is designed to produce revenue, and because it exceeds the basic authority of a city. We will consider each of these challenges to the enactment.

The appellants point to secs. 97.10 and 97.12, Stats., and urge that the ordinance of the city of Sheboygan purports to regulate the same subject which has been fully covered (and thereby pre-empted) by secs. 97.10 and 97.12. In…