Manteufel v. Wetzel
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Waupaca county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered in an action brought for a mandatory injunction requiring the defendant to close a ditch upon his land and for damages.
1Opinion of the CourtTimliN, J.
Only one question is necessary to be considered. It is established by the findings that the parties own adjoining lands. There is on the defendant’s land and about 100 feet west of the plaintiffs -land a sink hole or depression which in wet seasons and before the construction of the ancient ditch contained about three acres of water of the average depth of one and one-half feet, and between this sink hole or depression and the land of the plaintiff there is upon the land of the defendant at a point distant from the common boundary an elevation of about three feet. More than twenty years prior…
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