Case Name: Lilburn vs. Joint School District No. 14
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1870-06
Citations: 26 Wis. 585
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lilburn vs. Joint School District No. 14.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 585–586

Head Matter:
Lilburn vs. Joint School District No. 14.
School district. — Power to tax for “incidental purposes.”
A school district tax “for incidental purposes” held valid as an exercise of the power granted by Laws of 1863, ch. 155, sec. 19, subd. 5, to raise a tax to keep the school-house in repair and furnish it with the necessary appendages.
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Rock County.
Action to recover moneys which the plaintiff had been compelled to pay as a school district tax. At an annual meeting of the defendant district, it was voted to raise taxes as follows : “ For teachers’ wages, $466 ; for fuel, $80 ; for incidental expenses, $25; for bell for school house, $50; for well, $25.” The plaintiff claimed that the tax was illegal; and appealed from a judgment of nonsuit.
Conger & Sloan, for appellant.
Williams & Sale, for respondent.

Opinion:
Paine, J.
This case presents the single question whether a valid school district tax can he raised under the head of " incidental expenses." The precise question was decided by this court, in the case of The State ex rel. School District No. 2 v. Charles Wolfrom, Town Clerk, etc., 25 Wis. 468. For the reasons there given the judgment must be affirmed.
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.