Walker v. Shepardson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN EQUITY FROM THE MILWAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. In June, 1853, the complainant hies his hill in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee county, setting forth that he is now, and has been for more than six years last past, the owner in fee simple, and in possession of certain real estate known as water lots, situated in the city and county of Milwaukee, and described as lots two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven, in block three, in Walker’s Point of the…
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APPEAL IN EQUITY FROM THE MILWAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. In June, 1853, the complainant hies his hill in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee county, setting forth that he is now, and has been for more than six years last past, the owner in fee simple, and in possession of certain real estate known as water lots, situated in the city and county of Milwaukee, and described as lots two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven, in block three, in Walker’s Point of the city of Milwaukee. That said lots are bounded on the north and east, towards, and lie adjacent to, Milwaukee river, which…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Whitow, C. J.
• The bill of complaint sets forth that the complainant is the owner of certain lots in the city of Milwaukee, lying adjacent to Milwaukee River ; that the river is navigable for sail and steam vessels of the kind usually employed in the trade and commerce of- the lake, into which the river flows; that the complainant constructed a dock, or* wharf, along the line between the lots and river, and caused the bed or channel of the river *394*n °f an(i adjacent to said lots, to be dredged and cleaned out, and made of sufficient depth to render said dock freely accessible to…
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