State ex rel. Loehr v. Hanson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Racine county: R. B. Belden, Circuit Judge. 'Mandamus to compel the defendant town board to lay out a highway. An application for laying out a highway was filed with the town clerk on the 8th day of September, 1916. The town board met on the 18th day of December, 1916, pursuant to a notice of such meeting given on the 5th day of December, 1916, to decide upon said application.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Racine county: R. B. Belden, Circuit Judge. 'Mandamus to compel the defendant town board to lay out a highway. An application for laying out a highway was filed with the town clerk on the 8th day of September, 1916. The town board met on the 18th day of December, 1916, pursuant to a notice of such meeting given on the 5th day of December, 1916, to decide upon said application. Successive adjournments were taken until the 27th day of January, 1917, when the application was refused. , Upon an appeal from such order to the county judge,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed May 4, 1920:
Owen, J.
This action was here on a former appeal (168 Wis. 497, 170 N. W. 725) where a more detailed statement of fa-cts will be found, The. issues were there presented upon a demurrer to the return to the alternative writ, and it was held that the failure of the town board to act upon the petition within sixty days from the date of its filing with the town clerk constituted a refusal to lay out the highway pursuant to the provisions of sec-. 1276 of the Statutes. Upon .the remission of the case to the circuit court the relators filed an answer to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State ex rel. Loehr v. HansonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1919
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- State ex rel. Thompson v. EggenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1932