Bell v. City of Platteville
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Grant County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Oassoday: This action was commenced April 20,1885, by the plaintiffs, as tax-payers of the city, to restrain the defendant from renting or allowing the city hall, then lately completed therein, and worth $25,000, to be used for the purposes of theaters, concerts, lectures, shows, dances, and general entertainments.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Grant County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Oassoday: This action was commenced April 20,1885, by the plaintiffs, as tax-payers of the city, to restrain the defendant from renting or allowing the city hall, then lately completed therein, and worth $25,000, to be used for the purposes of theaters, concerts, lectures, shows, dances, and general entertainments. The complaint contained suitable allegations, and among others that such renting and use would increase the danger of the building by fire and avoid the insurance…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
It is undoubtedly true that the corporate authorities of a city possess only such powers as are expressly granted by legislative enactment, and such others as are necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers thus expressly granted, or essential to the declared objects and purposes.of the corporation. 1 Dill. Mun. Corp. (3d ed.), sec. 89; Appeal of Whelen, 108 Pa. St. 197; Le Couteulx v. Buffalo, 33 N. Y. 333; Meinzer v. Racine, 68 Wis. 245, 246; Gilman v. Milwaukee, 61 Wis. 592.
By the charter there was conferred upon the city of Platteville the general ¡sowers possessed by…
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