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STATE EX REL. BOWMAN v. BARCZAK

34 Wis.2d 57 (1967)

STATE EX REL. BOWMAN, Relator, v. BARCZAK, County Treasurer, and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

February 28, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the relator there were briefs by Michael, Best & Friedrich, attorneys, and Frank J. Pelisek and John K. Maclver of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Pelisek.

For the respondents there was a brief by Robert P. Russell, corporation counsel of Milwaukee county, for Max A. Barczak, county treasurer, and by Quarles, Herriott, Clemons, Teschner & Noelke, for Milwaukee County Industrial Development Corporation, attorneys, and Lester S. Clemons, Ross Shumaker, and Robert H. Diaz, Jr., of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Diaz.

GORDON, J.

The Public-Purpose Doctrine.

The principal challenge to the constitutionality of sec. 59.071, Stats., concerns the application of the public-purpose doctrine. Unlike most of the other constitutional stabs at this statute, discussed infra, no specific clause in the constitution establishes this doctrine; nevertheless, the public-purpose doctrine is firmly accepted as a basic constitutional tenet. Thus, in spite of its obscure origins...

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