STATE EX REL. LARSON v. GIESSEL


266 Wis. 547 (1954)

STATE EX REL. LARSON, Commissioner of the Motor Vehicle Department, Petitioner, vs. GIESSEL, Director of Budget and Accounts, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

May 4, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioner there was a brief by Laurence W. Hall, attorney, and Hall & Griffith of counsel, all of Madison, and oral argument by Laurence W. Hall.

For the respondent there was a brief by the Attorney General and Harold H. Persons and E. Weston Wood, assistant attorneys general, and oral argument by Mr. Persons and Mr. Wood.


CURRIE, J.

We have here presented for our determination the issue of whether ch. 651, Laws of 1953, providing for refund of the registration fees paid by owners of small trailers having a gross weight of one and one-half tons, not used for hire, is unconstitutional. The attorney general, in behalf of the respondent, bases his contention of unconstitutionality solely on the ground that a refund of such registration fees violates the prohibition against use of public...

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