Forest Cnty. v. Langlade Cnty.
| Decision Date | 26 November 1895 |
| Citation | Forest Cnty. v. Langlade Cnty., 91 Wis. 543, 65 N.W. 182 (Wis. 1895) |
| Parties | FOREST COUNTY v. LANGLADE COUNTY. |
| Court | Wisconsin Supreme Court |
OPINION TEXT STARTS HERE
On motion by plaintiff for rehearing. Granted.
For prior report, see 63 N. W. 760.
*182F. J. & C. F. Lamb, for plaintiff.
Lynch & Latta and T. W. Hogan, for defendant.
The trial court found assets belonging to Langlade county, amounting to $39,368.84, and that its liabilities amounted to $31,123.57; making an excess of assets over liabilities of $8,245.27. It was agreed that two-fifths of this excess should properly belong to Forest county. This made the sum of $3,298.10 which should go to Forest county. The judgment directed that certain tax certificates, held by Langlade county, upon lands in Forest county, amounting to $2,354.73, should be turned over to Forest county, and this amount applied to the payment of the sum due to Forest county, with judgment for the balance, $943.37. Now, there was, in fact, included in this aggregate sum of the liabilities of Langlade county the sum of $9,499.33, which appeared on the books of Langlade county to be due to certain towns, now, in either county. The judgment of the trial court did not provide for the payment of any part of this sum to Forest county, or to the towns interested. And this court has already held, in effect, that these are not properly liabilities of the county, in any technical sense. A sum which the county cannot be called upon to pay, either legally or equitably, cannot fairly be a liability. So that it is apparent that by...
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