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WAUWATOSA v. MILWAUKEE

259 Wis. 56 (1951)

TOWN OF WAUWATOSA, Appellant, vs. CITY OF MILWAUKEE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

April 3, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Kay, attorney, and Albert B. Houghton of counsel, both of Milwaukee, for the appellant.

For the respondent there were briefs by Walter J. Mattison, city attorney, and Richard F. Maruszewski, assistant city attorney, and oral argument by Mr. Maruszewski.

A brief was filed by C. R. Dineen, attorney, and Hubert O. Wolfe, Maxwell H. Herriott, George A. Schmus, Milton F. Burmaster, Harry J. Hayes, Allen J. Busby, J. Finn Grimes, and Lawrence G. Wickert of counsel, all of Milwaukee, as amid curiae.

GEHL, J.

In this action the town of Wauwatosa attacks the validity of an ordinance of the city of Milwaukee annexing an area of five hundred seventy-five acres lying in the towns of Wauwatosa and Granville. The land sought to be annexed consists of two relatively large bodies. The easterly area is adjacent to the Ninth ward of the city, extends approximately fourteen hundred ninety feet from north to south and from sixteen hundred to seventeen hundred feet from east...

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