State ex rel. Neacy v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J". Tukube, Circuit Judge. This is an action in the nature of quo warranto, brought by a taxpayer of the city of Milwaukee, challenging the right to office of a number of the acting ward assessors of the city of Milwaukee on the ground that an ordinance passed by the city council June 20, 1911, redistrieting the city, changing the boundaries of wards, and forming a number of new wards is .void.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J". Tukube, Circuit Judge. This is an action in the nature of quo warranto, brought by a taxpayer of the city of Milwaukee, challenging the right to office of a number of the acting ward assessors of the city of Milwaukee on the ground that an ordinance passed by the city council June 20, 1911, redistrieting the city, changing the boundaries of wards, and forming a number of new wards is .void. The city of Milwaukee was joined as a defendant. If the ordinance is void it is conceded that the defendants have no right to the…
1Opinion of the Court
The decision was announced October 15, and the following .opinion was filed October 29, 1912:
Winslow, O. J.
A number of objections to the plaintiff’s procedure are made by the demurrants which we do not find it necessary to consider. The importance of a decision upon the merits is such that it would certainly not be good administration to base a decision upon some defect in procedure when it is possible to take up and decide the vital question in the case, namely, the question of the validity of the redistricting ordinance. The importance of an early decision upon this question is greatly…
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