Moore v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Monroe County. Action, to recover damages for tbe injury done to tbe plaintiff’s cranberry marsb by fires alleged to bave been started by tbe negligence of tbe defendant. Tbe marsb embraced about 600 acres of land in Monroe county. Tbe facts will sufficiently appear from tbe opinion. There was a verdict for tbe plaintiff, assessing bis damages at $6,000, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appealed.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Monroe County. Action, to recover damages for tbe injury done to tbe plaintiff’s cranberry marsb by fires alleged to bave been started by tbe negligence of tbe defendant. Tbe marsb embraced about 600 acres of land in Monroe county. Tbe facts will sufficiently appear from tbe opinion. There was a verdict for tbe plaintiff, assessing bis damages at $6,000, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appealed. To the point that the refusal to give the instructions asked by the defendant was error which should work a reversal, they cited Rogers v.…
1Opinion of the CourtObtoN, J.
The main facts are as follows: The plaintiff claimed to own and was in the actual possession of certain lands in the county of Monroe, in this state, which were of great value for the cultivation and production of cranberries, and some portion was valuable for timber growing upon it. To make said lands more available for the cultivation of cranberries, the plaintiff had constructed thereon certain dams and bulk-heads and other erections, and dug ditches for supplying the same with the necessary water and regulating the same, some of which water came down upon said lands from lands adjoining…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Hungerford v. RedfordWisconsin Supreme Court · 1872
- McNarra v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
- Field v. Apple River Log Driving Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1887
- Carl v. Sheboygan & Fond du Lac RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1879
- Wilson v. HenryWisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
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