Town of Eagle River v. Oneida County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Oneida County. The plaintiff town appealed to the circuit court from the action of the county board of Oneida county in disallowing a bill for attorney’s fees and disbursements paid by said town and presented by it for audit to said county board. The cause was tried by the court without a jury. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Oneida County. The plaintiff town appealed to the circuit court from the action of the county board of Oneida county in disallowing a bill for attorney’s fees and disbursements paid by said town and presented by it for audit to said county board. The cause was tried by the court without a jury. The facts are stated in the opinion. The defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the amount of said bill, with costs. contended that the judgment should be reversed because the facts show no liability on the part of the county to pay the claim;…
1Opinion of the CourtObtoN, J.
The facts of this case are extremely meager, and are very much left to inference or intendment. There is no bill of exceptions, and the only question presented is whether the findings of the court support the judgment. What little record we have here would seem to imply, rather than state, that there were two actions in the circuit court of Brown county, in one of which one G. C. Hixon and others were plaintiffs, and in the other Walter A. Scott, as trustee5 was plaintiff, against the county -of Oneida and others as defendants, for the purpose of setting aside certain illegal taxes, two items…
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