Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: LawRence W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from an order overruling plaintiffs demurrer to defendant’s answer.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: LawRence W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from an order overruling plaintiffs demurrer to defendant’s answer. The complaint alleges, in effect, the incorporation of defendant as a municipal corporation, the organization of plaintiff in 1882 under the statutes of Wisconsin then in force and the acts amendatory thereof, being re-enacted into sec. 1771, Stats. 1898, and that said plaintiff was so organized for the purpose of conducting a telephone business and maintaining telephone lines and exchanges, and in order to furnish…
1Opinion of the Court
- Kebwijv, J".
The questions presented here upon the facts admitted by the demurrer are thus stated by respondent:
“Pirst. Has the city authority to exact a license such as is provided for in the ordinance, the enforcement of which the appellant seeks to enjoin?
“Second. Does the ordinance in question contravene the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution and similar provisions of the Wisconsin state constitution V’
The first proposition stated by counsel practically embraces the controversy before us, and we shall proceed to consider the right of the defendant city to exact the license…
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