Legal Opinion

Hasbrouck v. City of Milwaukee

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided June 15, 1866PublishedCited by 15 opinions

APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Racine County. The facts and pleadings in this case are so fully stated in 13 Wis., 37-56, and 17 id., 266-83, that they will not be repeated here.

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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Racine County. The facts and pleadings in this case are so fully stated in 13 Wis., 37-56, and 17 id., 266-83, that they will not be repeated here. This court having decided (17 Wis., 266, 281) that the question as to the gross value of the extra work done and materials furnished by reason of the change in the plan of the harbor, should have been submitted to the jury upon, evidence furnished by the parties as to the real value of such work and materials, and that the parties were not bound by the engineer’s estimates in that respect, the complaint was…

1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.

After what has been said in this case on former appeals, as reported in 13 Wis., 38, and 17 id., 266, we do not deem it necessary to notice in detail the numerous exceptions which appear upon the record. For many of these exceptions relate to points which were previously discussed; and if not expressly, they have been at least impliedly overruled in the opinions already delivered. An able argument has been presented by the counsel for the city, for the purpose of showing that the contract for constructing the harbor according to the government plan must be held void, because the work and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Gray v. McDonaldWisconsin Supreme Court · 1865

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Sturgis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1909
  2. State v. PotterSupreme Court of Kansas · 1875
  3. Brown v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
  4. Dodd v. MooreIndiana Supreme Court · 1883
  5. Boggs v. United StatesSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1900

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