Menasha Wooden Ware Co. v. Lawson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Tayloe as a part of the opinion: The defendants in error brought an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a small tract of land in the city of Menasha, and lying on the southerly side of the north channel of the Pox river.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Tayloe as a part of the opinion: The defendants in error brought an action of ejectment to recover the possession of a small tract of land in the city of Menasha, and lying on the southerly side of the north channel of the Pox river. The plaintiffs claimed on the trial that the land in controversy was a part of lot 1, section 22, of township 20 N., of range 11 E., and the defendant, the now plaintiff in error, claimed that it was' a part of lot 2, in the same section. It is not…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The plaintiff in error assigns as error that the circuit court erred in its conclusion of lawr that the boundary line between the two lots 1 and 2 of said section 22 should be drawn perpendicularly to the thread of the stream from the point where the meander line intersects the government division line between said lots 1 and 2. The learned counsel for the defendants in error insists that the third finding of fact is a mixed question of law and fact, and that he *606may therefore question the accuracy of the finding, if it is to be considered a pure question of fact, then he admits that this…
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