State ex rel. Christopher v. City of Portage
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPLICATION for a mandamus to compel the mayor, &c., of tbe city of Portage to provide for tlie assessment, equalization and collection of a special tax to defray the expense of certain work alleged to Rave keen done by the relator under an ordinance of said city, or to show cause, &c.
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APPLICATION for a mandamus to compel the mayor, &c., of tbe city of Portage to provide for tlie assessment, equalization and collection of a special tax to defray the expense of certain work alleged to Rave keen done by the relator under an ordinance of said city, or to show cause, &c. The davit of the relator showed that on the 1st of April, 1857, two-thirds of the owners of lots upon a certain portion of one of the streets of the city of Portage, made application in due form to the mayor and council of that city, for the passage of an ordinance requiring side-walks and street crossings to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Paine, J.
This was an application for a mandamus to compel the mayor and council of the city of Portage to provide for the assessment, collection and equalization of a special tax upon certain lots. A motion to quash the alternative writ was filed, and the principal objection made upon the argument was, that the ordinance providing *565for doing the work and letting the contract under which the relator claims, was repugnant to the charter, and
That all that part of the ordinance which provided that each lot, or part of lot, should be chargeable with all the work done in front of it,…
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