Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, Volume 146

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Page 324 - All persons having an interest in the subject of the action and in obtaining the relief demanded...
Page 296 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state and all of the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, as far as practicable, by examination which, as far as practicable, shall be competitive...
Page 526 - By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life...
Page 368 - The legislature shall establish but one system of town and county government, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable.
Page 2 - Action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of the defendant.
Page 304 - is between the delegation of power to make the law, which necessarily involves a discretion as to what it shall be, and conferring authority or discretion as to its execution, to be exercised under and in pursuance of the law. The first can not be done; to the latter no valid objection can be made.
Page 128 - In modern societies every part is related so organically to every other that what affects any portion must be felt more or less by all the rest. Therefore, unless everything is to be forbidden and legislation is to come to a stop, it is not enough to show that in the working of a statute there is some tendency logically discernible to interfere with commerce or existing contracts. Practical lines have to be drawn and distinctions of degree must be made.
Page 328 - No person can recover in ejectment, unless he has, at the time of commencing the action, a valid subsisting interest in the premises claimed, and a right to recover the same, or to recover the possession thereof, or of some share, interest or portion thereof, to be proved and established at the trial.
Page 303 - Looking at it as a matter of common sense, we are quite sure that the framers of our organic law never intended to oppose a constitutional barrier to the right of the people through their legislature to enact laws, which should have for their sole object the possession of...

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