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JOLLY v. GREENDALE HOUSING AUTHORITY

259 Wis. 407 (1951)

JOLLY, Appellant, v. GREENDALE HOUSING AUTHORITY and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

August 30, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there were briefs by Lines, Spooner & Quarles, attorneys, and Charles B. Quarles of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Charles B. Quarles.

For the respondents there were briefs by Irving A. Puchner of Milwaukee, for the Greendale Housing Authority, and by Field & Gerlach of Madison for Norman B. Ward, and oral argument by Mr. Puchner and Mr. John G. Gerlach.

Briefs were also filed by the Attorney General and Roy G. Tulane, assistant attorney general, and by Farnham A. Clark of Menomonie, and Wilkie, McCusker & Wilkie of Madison, as amici curiae.

MARTIN, J.

The purpose of sec. 66.40, Stats., the "Housing Authorities Law," is stated in sub. (2). It is there declared, in substance, that there exist insanitary and unsafe dwelling accommodations resulting in a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income, forcing them to occupy overcrowded and congested dwelling accommodations; that these circumstances cause conditions not conducive to...

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