Jacobs v. Lakeside Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wash-burn county: A. J. ViNJE, Circuit Judge. This is an action whereby plaintiff seeks to restrain the defendant from, digging a trench and laying a steam pipe therein across a lot in the unincorporated village of Shell Lake, Washburn, county. The plaintiff alleges that he is in the possession of a lot owned by such town under a contract with the town authorities to occupy this lot and the buildings thereon.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wash-burn county: A. J. ViNJE, Circuit Judge. This is an action whereby plaintiff seeks to restrain the defendant from, digging a trench and laying a steam pipe therein across a lot in the unincorporated village of Shell Lake, Washburn, county. The plaintiff alleges that he is in the possession of a lot owned by such town under a contract with the town authorities to occupy this lot and the buildings thereon. The lot and buildings are used for the maintenance and operation of a water and electric light plant for the village. It is also alleged…
1DissentTiMLiN, J.
The town of Shell Lake is authorized to exercise the powers of a village. Jacobs, who had a kind of possession of lot 3, block 1, of Lakeside addition to the unincorporated village of Shell Lake under a contract with the town to take such possession and furnish the steam power, fuel, and labor required to operate the waterworks plant and electric lighting plant belonging to the town situate thereon, brought a suit in equity to hujoin the Lakeside Lumber Company, a private corporation, from entering upon said lot and digging a ditch across the same and laying a *185pipe in said ditch, under a…
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- Richards v. DowerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1883
- Schubach v. McDonaldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1903
- Wabash R. v. HannahanU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri · 1903
- Graham v. HortonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1870
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