State Ex Rel. Milwaukee County v. Boos

Milwaukee county has a population in excess of 1,000,000 people residing in 246 square miles, a population density of 4,036 to the square mile, with about 26.1 per cent of the state’s population in 1957. The next-largest county is Dane with 205,000. Milwaukee county is industrial in character. It no longer has any town governments. Its 1959 expenditure budget was $80,279,000. It has a county board of 24 members elected by assembly districts instead of by towns, villages, and cities as in other counties. As of June 20, 1957, it had 5,484 county officers and employees. County Government and the…