Boorman v. Sunnuchs
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. In the government survey and plat of sections 33 and 34, in town 9, range 11 east, in the county of Dane, a certain pond, four or five feet deep, and covering about 160 acres of land (the same being within the limits of those sections), was meandered, and fractional lots were laid out abutting upon the pond.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. In the government survey and plat of sections 33 and 34, in town 9, range 11 east, in the county of Dane, a certain pond, four or five feet deep, and covering about 160 acres of land (the same being within the limits of those sections), was meandered, and fractional lots were laid out abutting upon the pond. These lots were patented by the United States, in 1840 and 1843, to different grantees, by their respective numbers on the plat. In 1864, the plaintiff, by divers mesne conveyances from the patentees and their grantees, became the owner in…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
In the cases of Diedrich v. The N. W. U. R'y Co., and Delaplaine v. The C. & N. W. R'y Co. (decided herewith), we had under consideration questions as to the rights of owners of lands bounded by meandered lakes or ponds, in such bodies of water and the beds thereof. For reasons stated in the opinions in those cases, and which it is unnecessary to repeat here, we reached the conclusion that such owners take no fee in the bed or soil under the water by virtue of their riparian ownership; but that, by virtue thereof, they have certain riparian rights in both the water and bed. Among these are…
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