Town of Platteville v. Galena & Southern Wisconsin Railroad
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. Action for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from building its road from a point called Phillips’ Corners, or any other point on its then existing road, over a line avoiding the plaintiff town, instead of extending it from said town toward the Wisconsin river.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. Action for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from building its road from a point called Phillips’ Corners, or any other point on its then existing road, over a line avoiding the plaintiff town, instead of extending it from said town toward the Wisconsin river. On the 10th of September, 1872, defendant was engaged in attempting to build a railroad from Galena, Ill., to some point on the Wisconsin river at or near Muscoda, in Grant county, in this state, to intersect the Milwaukee & P. du C. Railway, and had then located its line so…
1Opinion of the CourtRyan, C. J.
The voters of the appellant town may have been influenced by representations of the respondent railroad company or its officers, made intermediately between the proposition and the election; but the vote of the town was to accept the formal proposition of the railroad company, just as it is written. And no representations, outside of the written proposition, can modify its terms or aid its construction.
The proposition itself is loosely framed; but it is not difficult to put a construction upon it. The respondent was authorized to construct a railroad through this state from the county of Jo…
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