Fire Department of Milwaukee v. Helfenstein
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court for Milwaukee County. The complaint in this action sets forth in substance that on the 19th day of February 1858, the defendants executed and delivered to the plaintiff their certain bond or writing obligatory, reciting that the defendant, Helfenstein, was the agent of the Atlantic Fire Insurance company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and of the Commercial Insurance company, of New York, for the city of Milwaukee, and that by an act entitled “ an act in…
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APPEAL from the County Court for Milwaukee County. The complaint in this action sets forth in substance that on the 19th day of February 1858, the defendants executed and delivered to the plaintiff their certain bond or writing obligatory, reciting that the defendant, Helfenstein, was the agent of the Atlantic Fire Insurance company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and of the Commercial Insurance company, of New York, for the city of Milwaukee, and that by an act entitled “ an act in relation to insurance on property, in this state, made by individuals and associations authorized by law,” approved April…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Dixon, C. J.
In this case the following points are decided:
1. That the act entitled “ an act in relation to insurance on property in this state, made by individuals and associations authorized by law,” approved April 7th, 1852, (Laws of 1852, chap. 257,) does not infringe section 1 of article Till, of the constitution of this state, which declares that the “rule of taxation shall be uniform, and that taxes shall be levied upon such property as the legislature shall prescribe.” The per centage of the premiums directed to be paid for the benefit of the fire department, is in no just…
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