Hogan v. City of La Crosse
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Orosse ■county: O. B. Wyman, Oircuit Judge. This was a suit in equity to cancel and enjoin enforcement of special assessment certificates for the building of sewers in the city of La Crosse, under the same proceeding which was involved in the recent case of State ex rel. Sehint-gen v. La Crosse, 101 Wis. 208. Judgment was rendered in accordance with the prayer of the complaint, holding the special assessments yoid.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Orosse ■county: O. B. Wyman, Oircuit Judge. This was a suit in equity to cancel and enjoin enforcement of special assessment certificates for the building of sewers in the city of La Crosse, under the same proceeding which was involved in the recent case of State ex rel. Sehint-gen v. La Crosse, 101 Wis. 208. Judgment was rendered in accordance with the prayer of the complaint, holding the special assessments yoid. After, the decision in the Schint-gen Case, and before any appeal from the judgment had been perfected, the plaintiff and…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
It is a fundamental principle at the foundation of our judiciary system that courts sit only to decide actual controversies, and not to answer moot questions of law or fact, nor to declare abstract principles or rules of law not applicable to issues or controversies actually before them. 2 Ency. of Pl. & Pr. 342 et seq.; Little v. Bowers, 134 U. S. 547; Washington Market Co. v. District of Columbia, 137 U. S. 62; Singer Mfg. Co. v. Wright, 141 U. S. 696; California v. S. P. & T. R. Co. 149 U. S. 308; Mills v. Green, 159 U. S. 651; Plainfield v. Plainfield, 67 Wis. 525. No less thoroughly…
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