State ex rel. Attorney General v. Donald
Wisconsin Supreme Court
MaNBAmus proceedings to compel tbe secretary of state to audit a claim in favor of tbe Gr. E. Sanborn Company for payment of an account claimed to be due sucb company on a land contract between it and tbe state of Wisconsin.
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MaNBAmus proceedings to compel tbe secretary of state to audit a claim in favor of tbe Gr. E. Sanborn Company for payment of an account claimed to be due sucb company on a land contract between it and tbe state of Wisconsin. Tbe petition for tbe writ, in addition to essential and appropriate matters, contained, in substance, tbis statement of facts: June 1, 1911, under sec. 1072 — 1 and sec. 1494 — 61, Stats., in a contract, in writing, between G. E. Sanborn Company and tbe state of Wisconsin, it was agreed that tbe former should sell tbe latter certain lands for $90,076.11, payable…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
The decision in this case has been delayed very much longer than is usual after submission. That circumstance signifies the court’s conception of the importance of the particular matter. There has been no undue delay. The questions presented and requiring consideration and decision measure up with anything heretofore dealt with here. When the case was submitted we were confronted with these propositions among others:
1. Legislation has been placed on the statute books, causing large expenditures of public money and imminent peril of further such expenditures, in violation of the inhibition…
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