School District No. v. Marine National Exchange Bank of Milwaukee

It is fundamental that every presumption must be indulged to sustain the constitutionality of a law if at all possible, that all reasonable doubts must be resolved in favor of its validity.

As stated in Payne v. Racine (1935), 217 Wis. 550, 561, 259 N. W. 437:

“Before a statute can be said to be unconstitutional, the statute must lack in public purpose ‘so clear and palpable as to be perceptible by every mind at the first blush.’ This was said by Mr. Chief Justice Dixon, who sat in the constitutional convention and helped frame the charter of our state. Brodhead v. Milwaukee, 19 Wis. *624, *652. ‘We…