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UNION CEMETERY v. MILWAUKEE

13 Wis.2d 64 (1961)

UNION CEMETERY, Appellant, v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

March 7, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by von Briesen & Redmond, and oral argument by Ralph von Briesen and E. Thomas Schilling, all of Milwaukee.

For the respondent there was a brief by John J. Fleming, city attorney, and Ewald L. Moerke, Jr., and John F. Kitzke, assistant city attorneys, and oral argument by Mr. Moerke.

HALLOWS, J.

The exemption of the plaintiff from special assessments was valid when the legislature chartered the plaintiff by special legislature in 1865 and 1868. Exemptions from special assessments are within the discretion of the legislature and need not follow the rule of uniformity applied to exemptions from general taxation. Lamasco Realty Co. v. Milwaukee (1943), 242 Wis. 357, 8 N.W.2d 372; Lawrence University...

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