Sage v. Town of Fifield
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Price County. • The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Tayloe as a part of the opinion: This action is brought by the plaintiffs, owners of real estate subject to taxation in the town of Fifield, to have it adjudged by the court that a vote of the electors of said town, at the annual town meeting in said town, on the first-Tuesday of April, 1886, to raise $5,000 as a road tax in said town for the year 1886, is void…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Price County. • The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Tayloe as a part of the opinion: This action is brought by the plaintiffs, owners of real estate subject to taxation in the town of Fifield, to have it adjudged by the court that a vote of the electors of said town, at the annual town meeting in said town, on the first-Tuesday of April, 1886, to raise $5,000 as a road tax in said town for the year 1886, is void as to the sum of $3,000, and to restrain the supervisors of said town from incurring any expense, auditing any bills, or…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The appellants insist that the circuit court erred in refusing to dissolve the temporary injunction — (1) because the complaint does not state facts which, if admitted to be true, would justify the court in granting the relief prayed for in the complaint, even if it were admitted that the electors of said town had no authority to vote a road tax upon the taxable property of said town exceeding the sum of $2,000; and (2) because the answers of the appellants show clearly that there was no intention on the part of the defendants to levy or collect a road tax in said town for the year 1886 in…
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