Sanford v. Prentice
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Sheboygan County. Action to restrain tire officers of Joint Scliool District No. 1, village of Sheboygan Falls, from levying a certain tax and issuing orders for the purpose of buying a site and building a school house. The district is located partly in the village of Sheboygan Falls, and partly in the town of Sheboygan Falls.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Sheboygan County. Action to restrain tire officers of Joint Scliool District No. 1, village of Sheboygan Falls, from levying a certain tax and issuing orders for the purpose of buying a site and building a school house. The district is located partly in the village of Sheboygan Falls, and partly in the town of Sheboygan Falls. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is a citizen, free-holder and tax-payer within the school district; that the defendants are the officers of the district, which consists of more than 250 inhabitants; that at an annual school…
1Opinion of the CourtDixoN, C. J.
The only questions we shall consider in this case are as to the construction of section two of chapter 411, Private and Local Laws of 1866, and whether the power of the voters of the school district under that act was exhausted by reason of their having once taken proceedings in pursuance of it, which proceedings were subsequently abandoned. The whole act is as follows:
“ Section 1. The legal voters of joint school district No. 1, in the town of Sheboygan, town of Sheboygan Falls and village of Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan county, are hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect from the…
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