State ex rel. City of Milwaukee v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeat, from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: OscaR M. Eeitz, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from an order sustaining the demurrer hy the respondent to the appellant’s amended return to a writ of mandamus requiring it to pave Center street from Teu-tonia avenue to Seventeenth street between the rails and for one foot outside of the rails with asphalt upon a concrete foundation.
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Appeat, from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: OscaR M. Eeitz, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from an order sustaining the demurrer hy the respondent to the appellant’s amended return to a writ of mandamus requiring it to pave Center street from Teu-tonia avenue to Seventeenth street between the rails and for one foot outside of the rails with asphalt upon a concrete foundation. The appellant’s amended return admitted the corporate capacity of the parties and the business of the appellant; that it operated on Center street under a franchise granted to one of its…
1Opinion of the CourtKerwin, J.
The petition of the respondent for a writ of mandamus is based mainly upon- the ground that the respondent is entitled to have the appellant pave the zone in question with asphalt upon a concrete foundation under the provisions of an ordinance duly passed on the 8th day of November, 1915, by the terms of which the appellant was “ordered and directed to do away with the bad condition of its railway zone on Center street from Teutonia avenue to Seventeenth street, by paving’ the same with standard asphalt upon a concrete foundation, all of the same kind, character,, and specifications as that…
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