Menominee River Lumber Co. v. Seidl
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marinette county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. This is an action of ejectment brought to recover a parcel of land now claimed by plaintiff by accretion or reliction to-fractional section 9, town 30 north, range 24 east. The answer was a general denial, the defense being possession. After the proofs were in each party moved for a directed verdict. The court directed a verdict for defendants.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marinette county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. This is an action of ejectment brought to recover a parcel of land now claimed by plaintiff by accretion or reliction to-fractional section 9, town 30 north, range 24 east. The answer was a general denial, the defense being possession. After the proofs were in each party moved for a directed verdict. The court directed a verdict for defendants. Judgment was rendered accordingly, dismissing the complaint on the merits with costs, from which judgment this appeal was taken. The material established…
1Opinion of the CourtKeewiN, J.
The main question, involved in this case is whether the land in dispute and in possession of the defendants is owned by the plaintiff. The claim of the plaintiff is that it became such by accretion and reliction, although formerly the land was part of Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan, the title to which was in the state. Counsel insists that after plaintiff threw up the embankment the land in question was formed by the combined action of accretion and reliction and such land so formed.connected on the shore side with the main land and became a part of it; that the dredging by plaintiff some…
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