Burns v. Dodge
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM CIRCUIT COURT, ROCK COUNTY. This was an action of trespass for breaking and entering the close of the plaintiff, the same lots as described in the last case, and taking possession of the same, as the engineer of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad.
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APPEAL PROM CIRCUIT COURT, ROCK COUNTY. This was an action of trespass for breaking and entering the close of the plaintiff, the same lots as described in the last case, and taking possession of the same, as the engineer of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad. The defendant for a defense, claimed that the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company was, at the time of the doing the acts complained of in this action, the owner and entitled to the possession of the whole of said lot 24, having taken the same for the use of its railroad, and having had the value thereof assessed to the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
PaiNE, J.
This is an action of trespass brought by the respondent against the appellant, an agent of the Milwaukee and Mississippi R. R. Co., for the acts complained of in the suit by the respondent against that company and others. For the reasons given in the preceding case, we think the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial.
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