Lumsden v. Cross
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM COUNTY COURT, MILWAUKEE COUNTY. This action was commenced by Samuel and William Lumsden against James B. Cross, to recover the amount they had paid to redeem a lot in the city of Milwaukee which the defendant had allowed to he sold for taxes which he was hound to pay.
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APPEAL PROM COUNTY COURT, MILWAUKEE COUNTY. This action was commenced by Samuel and William Lumsden against James B. Cross, to recover the amount they had paid to redeem a lot in the city of Milwaukee which the defendant had allowed to he sold for taxes which he was hound to pay. The complaint set forth that they owned the lot and had leased it to Winthrop W. Gilman for a term of years, and he had leased one half the lot to Cross, who agreed to pay and discharge all taxes and assessment levied and. assessed on the premises during the term of his lease, at the time the same should become due…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Dixon, C. J.
It has been already decided in the case of Knowlton vs. The Supervisors of Rock County, 9 *284Wis., 410, that the uniform rule of taxation prescribed by the first section of the VUIth Article of the constitution, extends to all taxes levied for the purpose of revenue, or the support of the government, whether the moneys were used in defraying the expenses of municipal corporations, such as towns, villages, cities and counties, or those of the state at large. We are now called upon to determine whether this constitutional rule of uniformity extends to what are denominated…
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