Calumet Service Co. v. City of Chilton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Apeeal from a judgment'of tbe circuit court for Portage county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. Action for equitable relief.
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Apeeal from a judgment'of tbe circuit court for Portage county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. Action for equitable relief. Its nature as disclosed by pleadings and evidence and embodied in the findings is thus summarized: I. Defendant city, December 7/1897, granted an assignable franchise, license, or permit to one Binh, who accepted the same, to erect, maintain, and operate in such city an electric lighting plant to supply light, heat, and power for public and private use for fifteen years, using the city public places, as usual, to that end, with the sole right to do the public lighting…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
In the foregoing summary, covering a few pages, we have stated, it is thought, the essentials, from any viewpoint, of the fifty-four-page finding required to be examined in order to discover just what was decided in this case as a basis for the judgment. A recast of the findings. *345seemed necessary. It bas been accomplished by elimination of over nine tenths of the words originally used. The vital matters could, by more study, be covered by still less. It would be a valuable change in administration, one tending to successfully meet some criticism of the law where it is free from fault, the…
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