Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls v. Clark County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Clark county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge. According to the complaint, plaintiff, during the times mentioned therein, was an industrial school corporation organized under the laws of this state.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Clark county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge. According to the complaint, plaintiff, during the times mentioned therein, was an industrial school corporation organized under the laws of this state. Certain vicious, abandoned, incorrigible, and vagrant children, specified, were duly committed to its custody and care by the county judge of the defendant county, and such county, by reason thereof and of the services rendered by plaintiff in the care and maintenance of such children from November, 1894, to November, 1897, inclusive, became indebted to…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 2, 1899:
Maeshall, J.
The following propositions are urged in support of the order appealed from, either one of which, if sound, is fatal to plaintiJPs cause of action: (1) The expense of care and maintenance of children committed to industrial schools of this state by county judges under sec. 1547, R. S. 1878, and received, cared for, and maintained accordingly under sec. 1786, R. S. 1878, is not by statute imposed on the counties from which the children are committed. (2) The statute purporting to confer on judges of courts of record authority to commit…
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