Putney Bros. v. Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered upon a verdict directed in favor of the appellant for six cents damages in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the respondent in 1904 in which the commissioners on January 10, 1905, filed their award. This award gave the appellant $250 damages, and both parties appealed from such award to' the circuit court.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered upon a verdict directed in favor of the appellant for six cents damages in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the respondent in 1904 in which the commissioners on January 10, 1905, filed their award. This award gave the appellant $250 damages, and both parties appealed from such award to' the circuit court. Among other references cited upon the part of the appellant were the following: Younkin v. MilwauJcee L., H. & T. Co. 112 Wis. 15, 87 N. W. 861;…
1Opinion of the CourtTimxiN, J.
The appellant is a corporation and in March, 1895, succeeded to the general mercantile business of Put-ney Bros, (a copartnership) carried on in a store abutting on Broadway in the city of Waukesha. Putney Bros, on November 1, 1892, leased from LI. M. Erame all of the first floor of store No. 329 Broadway and running through to South street, and all of the cellar under said floor and the room in the second story facing on South street, for the term of five years, with the privilege ix> the lessees of a second term of five years on the same terms and conditions. There was a covenant not to…
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