City of Racine v. Emerson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Racine County. Action to recover a penalty for obstructing Wisconsin street in the plaintiff city. The facts are stated in the opinion. The testimony relating to the location of fences and structures on Wisconsin street not fronting on defendant’s premises, and all testimony as to the existence of stakes and the pointing out of them by Mr. Vilas and others as., the original stakes, and all hearsay testimony of what Mr..
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Racine County. Action to recover a penalty for obstructing Wisconsin street in the plaintiff city. The facts are stated in the opinion. The testimony relating to the location of fences and structures on Wisconsin street not fronting on defendant’s premises, and all testimony as to the existence of stakes and the pointing out of them by Mr. Vilas and others as., the original stakes, and all hearsay testimony of what Mr.. Vilas and others had said relating to such stakes or of surveys, was admitted subject to the objection of the plaintiffs The defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtOetoN, J.
This action is to recover the penalty, under a city ordinance, for the maintenance of an obstruction by the defendant, consisting of a fence in front of lots 11 and 12, in block 10, on the plat made by one Moses Yilas, in 1842, of section 16, — the school section,— as an addition to the village of Racine, on the east side of Wisconsin street. It is claimed that said fence is within the east side of Wisconsin street, two feet at one corner of said lots, and two feet eight inches at the other corner. The defendant has been present with this fence standing substantially where it is now since…
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