Kuhl v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the .circuit court for Manitowoc county: N. S. GilsoN, Circuit Judge. Proceedings under the statute, to obtain damages to property on one side of a public street, growing out of the location, construction, and maintenance of a railroad track on the other side of such street.
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Appeal from an order of the .circuit court for Manitowoc county: N. S. GilsoN, Circuit Judge. Proceedings under the statute, to obtain damages to property on one side of a public street, growing out of the location, construction, and maintenance of a railroad track on the other side of such street. In 1890 the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway Company, a duly organized railway corporation, pursuant to authority duly gi’anted by the city of Manitowoc, laid out, established, and constructed, and thereafter maintained continuously till August 19, 1893, a railroad on the opposite side of a…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRshali, J.
The questions discussed by counsel for the respective parties, and otherwise raised on this appeal, are as follows: (1) What property right, if any, is given by ch. 255, Laws of 1889, to the owner of lands abutting on a public street or highway, Avhich can be enforced against a railway company by reason of the construction, and maintenance of its line of road on the opposite side of the street? (2) When does the liability accrue to the lot owner by the circumstances indicated in the first proposition? (3) What provision of the statute of limitations applies as. regards the enforcement of suen…
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