Williams v. Western Union Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Raoine County. Ejectment, for a strip of land about a rod wide in block 58 in the school-section addition to the city of Hacine. Said strip lies parallel to defendant’s railway through, that block, its nearest boundary line being two rods distant from the center line of defendant’s track. The evidence introduced by the parties is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Raoine County. Ejectment, for a strip of land about a rod wide in block 58 in the school-section addition to the city of Hacine. Said strip lies parallel to defendant’s railway through, that block, its nearest boundary line being two rods distant from the center line of defendant’s track. The evidence introduced by the parties is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The court submitted it to the jury to determine, from all the evidence, whether the defendant company, prior to the date of its deed to one Engerud under which plaintiff claims, had acquired a…
1Opinion of the Court
*74The following opinion was filed April 20, 1880.
Obtok, J.
The defendant company, in 1854, procured a right of way through the south-half of block 58, in the school section addition to the village, now city, of Racine, by the condemnation, according to law, of a strip of land along the then located track of their road, four and one-half rods in width, two rods of which were west of the center of said track. In 1855 the company obtained, by deed of one Eratt, “ a strip of land six rods in width, for the uses and purposes of said railroad company, along the line of their road as at present [then]…
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