Harrison v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaulcee County. The complaint alleges that the defendant corporation, since 1875, has been empowered to lay water-pipes in all the alleys, streets, etc., of said city, and to-assess against the several lots or parcels of land which may front or abut. on the line of such water-pipes, the amount to which the land is specially benefited, provided that no regular lot shall be assessed more than one-half the cost, as estimated by the board of…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaulcee County. The complaint alleges that the defendant corporation, since 1875, has been empowered to lay water-pipes in all the alleys, streets, etc., of said city, and to-assess against the several lots or parcels of land which may front or abut. on the line of such water-pipes, the amount to which the land is specially benefited, provided that no regular lot shall be assessed more than one-half the cost, as estimated by the board of public works, of furnishing and laying a regular minor water-pipe, with the required openings for connections with…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
There can be no doubt that the plaintiff’s lots could not legally be assessed for more than one-lialf of the cost, as estimated by the board of public works, of furnishing and laying the regular minor water-pipe in front of her lots. It is alleged in the complaint that the entire cost of furnishing and laying the water-pipe during the year 1878 did not exceed the sum of eighty cents per lineal foot, which fact was well known to the board; that the board made a pretended assessment of the benefits to her lots by reason of laying the ■ water-pipe, in and by which they willfully and fraudulently…
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