Polebitzke v. John Week Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Portage county: A. H. Reid, Judge. This is an action for trespass. The complaint alleged that between April 20, 1906, and October 20, 1910, plaintiffs were tbe owners in common and in possession of tbe following described premises: “All of lots 1 and 2 and tbe north four and six-tenths acres of lot 3, and tbe northwest quarter of tbe southeast quarter, all in section 15, township 24 north, of range 7 east, excepting a strip of…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Portage county: A. H. Reid, Judge. This is an action for trespass. The complaint alleged that between April 20, 1906, and October 20, 1910, plaintiffs were tbe owners in common and in possession of tbe following described premises: “All of lots 1 and 2 and tbe north four and six-tenths acres of lot 3, and tbe northwest quarter of tbe southeast quarter, all in section 15, township 24 north, of range 7 east, excepting a strip of land one rod wide along tbe meandered shore bordering on tbe Wisconsin river, including lakes and bayous leading into…
1Opinion of the CourtBabees, J.
As we read the complaint, no claim is made in it for any damages resulting from permitting logs to lie-on the part of lots 1 and 2 of section 15, township 24 north, *380of range 7 east, conveyed by the Webster Manufacturing Company to the Stevens Point Boom Company. We find the following admission in the record, made by plaintiffs’ counsel near the close of the trial: “I admit that we have no right — that is, the plaintiffs — to a strip of land one rod bordering on the Wisconsin river, and the bayou.” It was stipulated on the trial that the Webster Company owned this parcel of land when it…
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