Goodrich v. Compound School District, No. 5
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO THE COUNTY COURT OF ROCK COUNTY. This suit was commenced in a justice’s court of Rock county, by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, to. recover the sum of ten dollars and ninety cents, the amount of a tax alleged to have been levied on certain lands, and which the plaintiff in error, as town clerk, had neglected to insert in the proper assessment roll and warrant of collection.
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ERROR TO THE COUNTY COURT OF ROCK COUNTY. This suit was commenced in a justice’s court of Rock county, by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, to. recover the sum of ten dollars and ninety cents, the amount of a tax alleged to have been levied on certain lands, and which the plaintiff in error, as town clerk, had neglected to insert in the proper assessment roll and warrant of collection. The declaration was in writing, and was as follows, to-wit: Compound School District No. 5, of the towns of Milton and Fulton, of Rock county, plaintiff in this suit, by Noggle, Pritchard…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cbawfobd, J.
This was an action of trespass on the case, commenced before a justice of the peace of Hock county, and removed to the County Court of that county by certiorari. The judgment rendered by the justice against the plaintiff in error (who was defendant in the action) was affirmed by the County Court.
It appears that the plaintiff in the case filed a declaration in writing in the justice’s court, to which the defendant pleaded the general issue and two special pleas. One of these latter denies the existence of any such corporation as “ Compound School District, Ho. 5, of…
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