State v. Hogue
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Papin County. Action to recover the statutory penalty for obstruction of a highway. Under the pleadings the issue was as to the existence of a highway at the point of obstruction, and this involved the validity of ch. 223, Laws of 1882, and the legality of the proceedings taken by the commissioners under that act.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Papin County. Action to recover the statutory penalty for obstruction of a highway. Under the pleadings the issue was as to the existence of a highway at the point of obstruction, and this involved the validity of ch. 223, Laws of 1882, and the legality of the proceedings taken by the commissioners under that act. Said ch. 223 is entitled “An act to provide for laying out a state road from the village of Misha Mokwa in the county of Buffalo, to the village of Pepin in the county of Pepin.” Its provisions "will sufficiently appear from the opinion. The court…
1Opinion of the Court
Cole, 0. J.
It is evident this judgment must be affirmed if oh. 223, Laws of' 1882, is a valid enactment. So, the principal question to be considered is the constitutionality of that law. The act appoints a board of commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from the village of Misha Mokwa in the count}»' of Buffalo, on the most feasible route to the village of Pepin in the county of Pepin. It gives the commissioners the same powders as are conferred by the general statute on county boards of supervisors, to award damages and settle with any parties who may feel aggrieved or sustain…
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