Clason v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Municipal Court of Milwaukee County. The action was brought by the defendant in error, to recover of Clason the penalty for violating an ordinance of the City of Milwaukee, for tbe protection of tbe beach or shore of Lake Michigan, in the third ward of said city. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
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ERROR to the Municipal Court of Milwaukee County. The action was brought by the defendant in error, to recover of Clason the penalty for violating an ordinance of the City of Milwaukee, for tbe protection of tbe beach or shore of Lake Michigan, in the third ward of said city. The case is fully stated in the opinion. The court found the defendant below guilty, as charged in the complaint, and sentenced him to a fine of $25 and costs, and he took his writ of error. contended that the defendant in error, being a municipal corporation whose powers of local legislation were derived solely from the…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
This action is brought by the city of Milwaukee to recover the penalty imposed for a violation of one of its ordinances. The ordinance in question was entitled “ an ordinance for the protection of the beach or shore of Lake Michigan in the tbkd ward of the city of Milwaukee.” In the first section, the beach or shore of Lake Michigan in the third ward of the city, extending along the margin of the lake from the center of Wisconsin street to the north harbor pier in the said ward, as high as the established grade of Beach street, in said ward, one hundred feet in width, was established and…
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