Legal Opinion

Board of Supervisors v. Board of Supervisors

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided June 15, 1865PublishedCited by 5 opinions

APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Tbe case is stated in tbe opinion. cited sec. 23, chap. 119, and sec. 7, chap. 123, R. S.; Bines v. Boyd, 7 Wis., 155; Bunals v. Brown, 11 id., 185 ; Hungerford v. Oushing, 2 id., 397; Oaltley v. Aspinwall, 3 Corns., 547 ; Place v. Butter - nuts Man. Co., 28 Barb., 503 ; Washington Ins.

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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Tbe case is stated in tbe opinion. cited sec. 23, chap. 119, and sec. 7, chap. 123, R. S.; Bines v. Boyd, 7 Wis., 155; Bunals v. Brown, 11 id., 185 ; Hungerford v. Oushing, 2 id., 397; Oaltley v. Aspinwall, 3 Corns., 547 ; Place v. Butter - nuts Man. Co., 28 Barb., 503 ; Washington Ins. Co. v. Price, 1 Hoplc, 1; Jewell v. Albany City Bank, Clarke, 179. The statute provides that this appeal from the supervisors shall be taken to the circuit court of the same county. It cannot be taken elsewhere; and such appeals are very common. The inability…

1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.

This is an appeal from an order refusing to change the place of trial. The action in the circuit court was an appeal from the decision of the board of supervisors of Milwaukee county, by which an account, amounting to the sum of $652.41, in favor of Jefferson county and against Milwaukee county, was disallowed. The application for a change of the place of trial was based upon several grounds, the principal.one of which was, that the circuit judge, being an inhabitant and taxpayer of Milwaukee county, was interested in the subject matter of the action adversely to the plaintiff. Our statute…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Morris v. EdmondsNew York Supreme Court · 1853
  2. Inhabitants of Quincy v. Inhabitants of BraintreeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1809

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Cook v. HouserWisconsin Supreme Court · 1904
  2. McCoy v. HandlinSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1915
  3. State ex rel. Wickham v. NygaardWisconsin Supreme Court · 1915
  4. Hewitt v. FollettWisconsin Supreme Court · 1881
  5. State ex rel. Cook v. HouserWisconsin Supreme Court · 1904

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