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SCHOOL DIST. v. MARINE NAT. EXCHANGE BANK

9 Wis.2d 400 (1960)

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 6 OF CITY OF GREENFIELD, Petitioner, v. MARINE NATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK OF MILWAUKEE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

February 2, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioner there was a brief and oral argument by Howard G. Brown of Milwaukee.

For the respondent there was a brief by Kaumheimer, Alt & Likert, attorneys, and Richard H. Norris III of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Norris.

MARTIN, C. J.

It is fundamental that every presumption must be indulged to sustain the constitutionality of a law if at all possible, that all reasonable doubts must be resolved in favor of its validity.

As stated in Payne v. Racine (1935), 217 Wis. 550, 561, 259 N. W. 437:

"Before a statute can be said to be unconstitutional, the statute must lack in public purpose `so clear and palpable as to be perceptible by every mind at the first blush...

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