O'Loughlin v. Dorn
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Buffalo county: George Thompson, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, as resident, voter, and taxpayer of the school district of the town of Glencoe, Buffalo- county, brought this action in equity on behalf of others in said district as well as himself to enjoin the officers of that school district from in any manner paying certain notes of said school district or raising any tax or making any loan for such purpose.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Buffalo county: George Thompson, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, as resident, voter, and taxpayer of the school district of the town of Glencoe, Buffalo- county, brought this action in equity on behalf of others in said district as well as himself to enjoin the officers of that school district from in any manner paying certain notes of said school district or raising any tax or making any loan for such purpose. At the annual meeting of the school district on July 3, 1911, resolutions were adopted to build a new schoolhouse, brick veneered, size 36 x…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The carrying of the motion at the annual meeting in July, 1912, in the words “that if we can get out of paying the $450 to J. G. Schneider we will,” cannot be held such a definite, formal proceeding on the part of the electors of the school district as would amount to a repudiation of the obligation claimed to be due as a balance on the contract for the building of the schoolhouse, as is urged by appellant. However devoutly those then present may have wished for such a consummation, they fell short in any ful-filment thereof, and their declaration, therefore, was ineffectual either as a…
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