Damp v. Town of Dane
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Dane County. Action against tbe town of Dane to recover tbe damages awarded to tbe plaintiff for tbe laying out of .a highway through bis land in said town.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Dane County. Action against tbe town of Dane to recover tbe damages awarded to tbe plaintiff for tbe laying out of .a highway through bis land in said town. On a petition purporting to be signed by sixteen resident freeholders of said town of Dane, and fifteen or more of such freeholders of the town of Yienna, the county board of supervisors of the county of Dane, on the 12th day of March, 1869, met pursuant to a notice for that purpose, and decided to lay out, and, on the 13th day of March, 1869, made an order laying out a public highway on or near the line…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
On the 13th day of March, 1869, the board of supervisors of the county of Dane made an order laying out a public highway in said county, on and near the line between the towns of Dane and "Vienna, and upon and over certain lands in the former town belonging to the plaintiff, and awarded the plaintiff damages therefor in the sum of fifty-two dollars. The board also decided and ordered that the town of Dane should pay such damages.
*424The complaint sets out all of the proceedings pertaining to the laying out of such highway, and if such proceedings are correctly stated therein, it shows that the…
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