Lawler v. Brennan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wal-worth. county: A. J. Vinje, Judge. The plaintiff is the owner of a strip of land fronting on Lake Geneva. A highway passes across said land adjacent to said lake.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wal-worth. county: A. J. Vinje, Judge. The plaintiff is the owner of a strip of land fronting on Lake Geneva. A highway passes across said land adjacent to said lake. Plaintiff is a dealer in ice, and, being desirous of building an ice house on his land, and of digging a channel from such ice house to said lake so as to convey the ice therein, applied to the town board of the town of Linn, in which said land was situated, for permission to dig such ditch across the highway and construct a bridge over the same, and at the same time presented to…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinions were filed January 9, 1912:
Baenes, J.
His Honor, Mr. Justice Vinje, tried this, case while on the circuit bench, and is therefore disqualified from talcing part in the decision on the appeal in this court. Justices Siebeckee, Keewin, and Timlin are of the opinion that the judgment of the circuit court should be reversed. Chief Justice Winslow, Justice Maeshall, and the writer are of the opinion that the judgment appealed from should *121be affirmed. There being an equal division of tbe members of tbe court qualified to participate in tbe decision, as above indicated, tbe…
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