Pederson v. Chipman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Columbia county: Chestee A. Eowxeb, Circuit Judge. Tbe appeal is by John O. Pederson,- Jacob Postad, and, Knute Hoverson, resident freeholders of tbe town of Leeds, Columbia county.
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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Columbia county: Chestee A. Eowxeb, Circuit Judge. Tbe appeal is by John O. Pederson,- Jacob Postad, and, Knute Hoverson, resident freeholders of tbe town of Leeds, Columbia county. Tbis is a proceeding under tbe statutes to compel tbe supervisors of tbe town of Leeds, on notice, to meet and award damages to tbe aforementioned freeholders for alleged damage caused to their lands by a town drain installed in 1914. Tbis drain of tbe town of Leeds was ordered by tbe town board in 1913 and constructed in 1914. No notice was served upon tbe complaining…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecicee, J.
The petitioners contend that they were entitled to personal service of the notice prescribed by sec. 1360, Stats. 1913. The supervisors are required by this section to “make out a notice and fix therein a time and place at which they will meet to examine and decide” upon application for laying out the proposed drain, and “such notice shall specify . . . the several tracts of land through which the same will pass; and the petitioners shall cause the notice to be served upon each of the resident owners of said several tracts of land, personally or by copy left at his usual place of abode, . . .…
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