Kneeland v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This action was brought to restrain the issuing of tax deeds for certain property of the plaintiff m the city of Milwaukee, which had been sold for taxes for the years 1857, 1858 and 1859. The first count in the complaint referred solely to the taxes for the year 1857, and from the decision of the circuit court in regard to that count no appeal was taken.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This action was brought to restrain the issuing of tax deeds for certain property of the plaintiff m the city of Milwaukee, which had been sold for taxes for the years 1857, 1858 and 1859. The first count in the complaint referred solely to the taxes for the year 1857, and from the decision of the circuit court in regard to that count no appeal was taken. The second count alleged that the assessors for said city for the years 1858 and 1859, contrary to their duty, knowingly and intentionally omitted to assess, or place on the assessment roll…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
PAINE, J.
In the case of The Attorney General vs. The Winnebago Lake and Fox Fiver Flank Road Company, 11 Wis., 85, this court decided that tbe law which, afr-tempted to make railroads and plank roads taxable by a dif-x r» ferent rule from that applicable to the general mass of taxable property, was unconstitutional. The question is now made in this case, whether the omission by the assessors in the city of Milwaukee, to insert in the tax lists the large amounts of railroad property there, in pursuance of that law, does not invalidate the taxes imposed u¡oon other property. The…
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