Shepardson v. Supervisors of Milwaukee County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe County Court of Milwaukee County. Tbe plaintiff appealed from an order sustaining, pro forma, a demurrer to tbe complaint as not stating a cause of action. Tbe substance of tbe complaint is stated in tbe opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
Tbis action is brought for tbe purpose of having certain levies of taxes, assessments, and sales described in the complaint, together with tbe tax certificates issued on such tax sales, adjudged void and canceled. Tbe ground for asking tbis relief is, that tbe levy and assessment of tbe said several taxes, tbe sales thereon, and tbe tax 'certificates, are unauthorized, illegal and void, for tbe reason that tbe description of tbe land in said several assessments and sales and certificates is uncertain, indefinite and vague, and is wholly void for uncertainty.
In tbe case of Head v. James, 13…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Head v. JamesWisconsin Supreme Court · 1861
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