State ex rel. Dockstader v. Brown
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from tbe Circuit Court for Walworth County. These were applications for writs of mandamus commanding tbe supervisors of tbe tbe town of Richmond in said county to issue an order on tbe town treasurer in each case for $214, in favor of Willard Dockstader and-Dockstader, respectively.
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APPEALS from tbe Circuit Court for Walworth County. These were applications for writs of mandamus commanding tbe supervisors of tbe tbe town of Richmond in said county to issue an order on tbe town treasurer in each case for $214, in favor of Willard Dockstader and-Dockstader, respectively. It is alleged in substance, that tbe town, at a meeting legally called for tbe purpose December 80tb, 1868, bad instructed tbe supervisors to issue sucb an order to eacb volunteer wbo should enlist to fill tbe quota of said town, under a then pending call of tbe president, and should be received into tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
It is an admitted fact in the stipulation that the town board procured recruits to the number of thirteen (which was the quota assigned to the town) tobe enlisted and credited to the town, and issued orders to each recruit in the sum voted by the electors at the special town meeting. It is further admitted that the sons of the relator enlisted to the credit of the town under the same call of the president without any personal agreement with or direction by the authorities of the town, and without any direction of any committee of said town; though the town had notice that they had enlisted as…
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