Wisconsin Code § 224.05

Municipality not preferred creditor
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If any bank,
banking institution or trust company, being indebted to the state
of Wisconsin, or indebted to any county, city, town or other municipality therein, for deposits made or indebtedness incurred after April 23, 1899, becomes insolvent or bankrupt, except as provided in s. 34.07, the state, county, city, town or other municipality shall not be a preferred creditor and shall have no preference
or priority of claim whatever over any other creditor or creditors
thereof; but a just and fair distribution of the property of such
bank, banking institution or trust company, and of the proceeds
thereof, shall be made among the creditors thereof proportionally,
according to the amount of their respective claims. Nothing
herein contained shall in any manner affect the provisions of law
as they existed on said date providing for the payment of unpaid
taxes and assessments, laborer’s claims, expenses of assignment
and execution of the trust.

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