Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. City of Milwaukee

The plaintiff paid the $6,854.75, which it seeks to recover herein, to the city of Milwaukee under protest and duress, in order to be permitted by the city to open up certain street pavements to install underground equipment required in conducting plaintiff’s business as a public utility. The city exacted that payment under an alleged ordinance which purported to authorize its commissioner of public works to grant permits to public utilities for opening street pavements or resurfaced streets, laid within three years, upon a showing that an emergency existed, provided, however, that no such…