Nash v. Fries
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Ashland ■county: JohN K. Paeish, Circuit Judge. Appellant, together with other citizens and freeholders, presented a petition alleging all the facts required by ch. 21, Laws of 1905, for the organization of the town of Shana-golden, in Ashland county, whereupon the court, on motion ■of attorneys for respondent, dismissed said petition, on the ground that sec. 775d (sec. 1, ch. 21, Laws of 1905), under which said petition had been…
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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Ashland ■county: JohN K. Paeish, Circuit Judge. Appellant, together with other citizens and freeholders, presented a petition alleging all the facts required by ch. 21, Laws of 1905, for the organization of the town of Shana-golden, in Ashland county, whereupon the court, on motion ■of attorneys for respondent, dismissed said petition, on the ground that sec. 775d (sec. 1, ch. 21, Laws of 1905), under which said petition had been filed, is unconstitutional, from which order Nash, one of the petitioners, appeals. As to the meaning of the word…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
Ch. 21, Laws of 1905, provides that contiguous territory containing at least a government township, being part of any town or towns and having at least fifty resident electors and an assessed valuation of at least $100,000, may be organized into a town upon compliance with the fol*122lowing three sections. The firs]; of said sections (sec. 775 b) provides for presentation to the circuit court of a petition by a majority of the resident electors and homesteaders of the-proposed territory, correctly describing the same, naming the town or towns of which it is a part, containing the names of the…
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