Yates v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. Johnson, Circuit Judge. This was an action to set aside certain assessments against the premises owned by one of the plaintiffs, Mcurion J. Yates, the wife of the plaintiff Theodore Yates, particularly known and described as the “ Cold Spring Driving Park,” containing about sixty acres of land, and to set aside the sale of the said premises for the amount of said assessment, and to restrain the execution…
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Appeals from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. Johnson, Circuit Judge. This was an action to set aside certain assessments against the premises owned by one of the plaintiffs, Mcurion J. Yates, the wife of the plaintiff Theodore Yates, particularly known and described as the “ Cold Spring Driving Park,” containing about sixty acres of land, and to set aside the sale of the said premises for the amount of said assessment, and to restrain the execution of a tax deed thereof by reason of such sale. It appears from the pleadings and motion papers, that by sec. 1, ch. 450,…
1Opinion of the CourtPinney, J.
In the case of Hale v. Kenosha, 29 Wis. 605, in considering the distinction between taxes and assessments, it was said that “ assessments, as distinguished from other kinds of taxation, are those special and local, impositions *357upon property in. the immediate vicinity of municipal iift-provements, such as grading and paving streets, improving harbors or navigable rivers within the limits of the municipality, and the like, which are necessary to pay for the improvements, and are laid with reference to the special benefit which the property is supposed to have derived from the expenditure; ” and…
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