Williams v. Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Ass'n
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from, the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The case is fully stated in.the opinion. The defendants, appeal from a judgment dispossessing and ejecting them from the premises in question, and from all use thereof for the purposes of an exposition, but subject to the right of the city to use them as an open public square, or for the erection of a market-house thereon, and awarding to the plaintiff six cents damages and costs to be taxed.
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APPEAL from, the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The case is fully stated in.the opinion. The defendants, appeal from a judgment dispossessing and ejecting them from the premises in question, and from all use thereof for the purposes of an exposition, but subject to the right of the city to use them as an open public square, or for the erection of a market-house thereon, and awarding to the plaintiff six cents damages and costs to be taxed. They contended that the plat, having been of record for fifty-five yeai s, must be presumed to have been executed according to law; that it contained…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
This is an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff to recover forty-six ninety-sixths, undivided, of the east one-half of the block on which the Exposition building is located in the city of Milwaukee. It appears that on October 8, 1835, Byron Kilbourn, who was then the sole owner of the premises, made and recorded a plat of this and of other tracts of land belonging to him, laying the same out in blocks and lots, -with streets and alleys, as and for the town of Milwaukee, on the west side of Milwaukee river.' On the plat were blocks marked “ Public; ” and in the certificate signed by…
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