Lawson v. Schnellen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. The plaintiff brought this action in behalf of himself and of all other owners of taxable property in the town of Menasha, similarly interested, against the chairman, supervisors and clerk of said town, and the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. The plaintiff brought this action in behalf of himself and of all other owners of taxable property in the town of Menasha, similarly interested, against the chairman, supervisors and clerk of said town, and the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company. The relief sought was a judgment, perpetually restraining said town officers from issuing or signing any bonds of the town purporting to be issued under ch. 126, Laws of 1869, etc., and from delivering any such bonds to the president of the National Bank of Commerce of the city of New York, or any…
1Opinion of the Court
Dixon, O. J.
The cases of Whitiny v. Railroad Co., 25 Wis., 167, and Judd v. Fox Lake, 28 Wis., 583, mast be taken to have settled the law of this state, that injunction is the proper remedy to stay and prevent the execution and delivery by its officers of the negotiable bonds or other commercial obligations of a town or municipal corporation, when the case made by the plaintiff, being a tax payer of the town or municipality and a party likely to suffer pecuniary loss, shows that such officers threaten or are about to execute and put in circulation such bonds or other negotiable paper of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Whiting v. Sheboygan & Fond Du Lac RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1870
- Judd v. Town of Fox LakeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Phillips v. Town of AlbanyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Veeder v. Town of LimaWisconsin Supreme Court · 1865
- Town of Rochester v. Alfred BankWisconsin Supreme Court · 1861
3Cited by17 opinions
- Yesler v. City of SeattleWashington Supreme Court · 1890
- Willard v. ComstockWisconsin Supreme Court · 1883
- Fowler v. City of SuperiorWisconsin Supreme Court · 1893
- Bound v. Wisconsin Central RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1878
- Board of Supervisors v. WalbridgeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1875
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