Goodall v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This was an action of trespass on tbe case, brought by the plaintiff in error against tbe defendants in error, to recover damages for injuries done to bis dwelling-bonse, lots and improvements bj cutting down Sycamore street in tbe Eourtb Ward in tbe city of Milwaukee.
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This was an action of trespass on tbe case, brought by the plaintiff in error against tbe defendants in error, to recover damages for injuries done to bis dwelling-bonse, lots and improvements bj cutting down Sycamore street in tbe Eourtb Ward in tbe city of Milwaukee. Tbe declaration, after setting out tbe plaintiff’s title, proceeds as follows: “and for that, wliereas, heretofore, to wit: on tbe eleventh day of November, A. D. 1847, at tbe city and county aforesaid, tbe mayor and aldermen of the city of Milwaukee, in common council assembled, did, by an ordinance, entitled ‘ An ordinance…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
But for the circumscribed sphere or scope of the pleadings in this case, a wide, if not a new field of discussion would be opened up ; indeed, the argument on both sides at bar, as well as the authorities cited, seemed to have in view the widest scope, and the broadest range of inquiry which a subject of this kind could embrace ; but though, in the investigation of the case, we can scarcely avoid considering the more general principles applicable to the questions here involved, we shall endeavor (with what success is uncertain) to confine our*38selves as closely as may be…
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