Wisconsin Reports, Volume 155Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell Callaghan and Company, 1914 - Law reports, digests, etc Cases determined in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. |
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Page 22 - ... per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 3 - Any county, city, school district or other municipal corporation, incurring any indebtedness as aforesaid, shall, before or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 130 - Neither can we say as a matter of law that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence.
Page 212 - An attorney cannot, without the consent of his client, be examined as to any communication made by the client to him, or his advice given thereon in the course of professional employment...
Page 217 - States shall have power, in the trial of actions at law, on motion and due notice thereof being given, to require the parties to produce books or writings in their possession or power, which contain evidence pertinent to the issue, in cases and under circumstances where they might be compelled to produce the same, by the ordinary rules of proceeding in chancery...
Page 371 - We think these decisions establish the doctrine on " which we decide the present case, namely, that the acts " for which a Court of equity will on account of fraud set " aside or annul a judgment or decree, between the same " parties, rendered by a Court of competent jurisdiction, " have relation to frauds, extrinsic or collateral, to the mat' ' ter tried by the first Court, and not to a fraud in the mat" ter on which the decree was rendered.
Page 138 - Writs of error, bills of exception, and appeals, shall be allowed in all cases from the final decisions of said district courts to the supreme court, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law; but in no case removed to the supreme court shall trial by jury be allowed in said court.
Page 153 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 231 - It is impossible that the meaning of the constitutional provision can only be, that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal prosecution against himself.
Page 225 - ... be punished by imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.