McKee v. Hull
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. For the appellant it was contended that damages were properly awarded to the respondent MoKee, for laying the highway through his land, and he did not appeal therefrom, and a town order for the amount was duly tendered to him.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. For the appellant it was contended that damages were properly awarded to the respondent MoKee, for laying the highway through his land, and he did not appeal therefrom, and a town order for the amount was duly tendered to him. Due notice was also given him to remove his fence, and he had refused to comply therewith, before the defendant, as road overseer, removed the same by order of the supervisors. The only defect claimed in the laying out of the highway in question was the failure to award…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The respondent brought an action in justice’s court against the appellant for wrongfully breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close, and throwing down and destroying his fences. The defendant answered that the locus in quo was a public highway; that he did the acts complained of for the purpose of removing the fences of said plaintiff from said highway, and that what he did was by order of the board of supervisors of the town, for the purpose of opening such highway. The defendant gave the proper bond, and the case was sent to the circuit court of the county, where the same was tried. On the…
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