Green County v. Village of Monroe
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from, tbe Circuit Court for Green County. This action is brought by the county to recover from the village $2,850, collected by the village during the years 1879 and 1880, for licenses granted during those years to sundry persons, allowing them to sell intoxicating liquors in the village.
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APPEAL from, tbe Circuit Court for Green County. This action is brought by the county to recover from the village $2,850, collected by the village during the years 1879 and 1880, for licenses granted during those years to sundry persons, allowing them to sell intoxicating liquors in the village. The complaint, in effect, alleged that the county system of supporting the poor, and abolishing all distinctions between county poor and town poor in the county, had been adopted by the county and continued in force ever since 1860; that the expense of maintaining all the poor in the county had become…
1Opinion of the CourtOassodax, J.
In Churchill v. Herick, 32 Wis., 357, it was held that ch. 35, E. S. 1858, which constituted the general excise law at the time, by its terms applied to cities as well as to villages and towns, and that all moneys received ■for licenses granted under the provisions of that law, in (counties where the county system of supporting paupers had 'been adopted, were required, by section 16 of that chapter, to be paid into the county treasury and applied to the payment of the pauper expenses of the county. Oh. 223, Laws of 1860, took the counties of Dodge, Jefferson, Colum'bia, Winnebago and Brown…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- President of Platteville v. McKernanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
- Churchill v. HerrickWisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
3Cited by3 opinions
- Town of Blooming Grove v. City of MadisonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1957
- Common Council of the City of Oshkosh v. State ex rel. PerkinsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
- Town of Oak Grove v. Village of JuneauWisconsin Supreme Court · 1886