State ex rel. City of Shawano v. Engel
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Shaw-ano county: A. H. Reid, Judge. . The relator and appellant, the city of Shawano, a city of the fourth class under the general charter law, sought to compel the defendants, supervisors of. the town of Richmond, to meet its city council to provide a method of apportioning the assets and liabilities of.the said town to the said city under the provisions of ch. 516, Laws 1919, by which act it was alleged a certain portion of…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Shaw-ano county: A. H. Reid, Judge. . The relator and appellant, the city of Shawano, a city of the fourth class under the general charter law, sought to compel the defendants, supervisors of. the town of Richmond, to meet its city council to provide a method of apportioning the assets and liabilities of.the said town to the said city under the provisions of ch. 516, Laws 1919, by which act it was alleged a certain portion of said town had become annexed to said city. The relator moved to quash such proceedings on the ground that said ch. 516 is…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
Ch. 516, Laws 1919, is entitled “An act to detach a portion of the town of Richmond and add such detached portion to the city of Shawano, all in Shawano county.”
By sec. 1 of that chapter it was provided that all that portion of section 36 in the said town of Richmond not then included within the corporate limits of the city of Shawano, “is hereby detached from the said town of Richmond and attached to and made a part of the said city of Shawano.”
By sec. 2 provision was made for apportioning to the city of Shawano the assets and liabilities of the town of Richmond.
Sec. 3 provided for a meeting…
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