10 Wis. 49 | Wis. | 1859
By the Court,
The single question arising in this case is, whether an action can be maintained against the supervisors of a county, upon a county order, duly issued, after the same has been presented to the treasurer of the county, and payment thereof has been refused, for want of funds in the county treasury. The general capacity of a county to he
We were referred to some cases, by the counsel for the appellant, to show that no action could.be maintained against a county, upon a claim against the same. The answer to this is, that our statute expressly declares otherwise. So, such cases as that of Wood et al. vs. The County of Hartford, 12 Conn., 404, do not apply; and as little applicable to the case under review, is the doctrine laid down in Brady vs. Supervisors of New York, 2 Sand. Sup. Ct., 460. In the latter case, an action was brought upon a claim for services rendered by counsel for the Board of Supervisors, without submitting the claim to the Board, to be settled and allowed. The court held that the action would not lie. See the case of Lyell vs. The Supervisors of Lapier County, 6 McLean, 446, where the court decided that an action could be maintained upon a county order, in the United States Court, when the sum in controversy, and the character of the parties, gave the court jurisdiction.
It was contended, that since, in this case there was no money in the county treasury, with which to pay the orders sued upon, the respondent's remedy was by mandamus to
We think these observations sufficiently dispose of the questions in this case. The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.