Case ID: wis_205/html/0431-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Nelson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Breckenridge and others, Respondents, vs. City of Watertown, Appellant.
    
      May 12
    
    October 13, 1931.
    
    
      For the appellant there were briefs by R. W. Lueck of Watertown, city attorney, and Olin & Butler of Madison of counsel, and oral argument by R. M. Rieser of Madison.
    
      W. N. Powers of Beaver Dam, for the respondents.
   The following opinion was filed June 12, 1931:

Nelson, J.

This case is ruled by the decision announced this day in Christoph v. City of Chilton, ante, p. 418, 237 N. W. 134, wherein it is held that sec. 62.075, Stats., as enacted by ch. 353 o.f the Laws of 1929, is unconstitutional, void, and of no effect.

By the Court. — The judgment of the circuit court for Jefferson county is reversed, with directions to dismiss the petition.

Owen, Fritz, and Wickhem, JJ., dissent.

A motion for a rehearing was denied, without costs, on October 13, 1931.