Van Buren v. Downing
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. Action commenced before a justice of tbe peace to recover eighty dollars, which, it is alleged in the complaint, was unlawfully demanded, collected and received by the defendant from the plaintiff.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. Action commenced before a justice of tbe peace to recover eighty dollars, which, it is alleged in the complaint, was unlawfully demanded, collected and received by the defendant from the plaintiff. Answer,., “ that the money was due the state on. license under ch. 72, Laws of 1870; that the defendant was a special treasury agent; and that the money was paid to him as such, and by him to the state treasury; and further, that the same was paid voluntarily.” The plaintiff recovered before the justice, and the defendant appealed to the circuit court,…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
In Morrill v. The State, 38 Wis., 428, we held that ch. 72, Laws of 1870, was not in conflict with any provision of the state or federal constitution, and especially ¿hat it was not a regulation of inter-state commerce, but was purely a police regulation, which the legislature had power to enact. Hence we sustained a conviction of the plaintiff in error, an agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., for a violation of its provisions in the execution of his employment. It was proved in that case, and will be assumed in the present case, that such company is a corporation of another state.
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