Gosa v. Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeax from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: James J. Dice, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered upon a verdict for the appellant upon appeal to tbe circuit court from the award of commissioners in a condemnation proceeding.
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Appeax from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: James J. Dice, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered upon a verdict for the appellant upon appeal to tbe circuit court from the award of commissioners in a condemnation proceeding. March 3, 1904, the respondent filed its petition in the circuit court for Waukesha county seeking “to condemn and permanently appropriate all the rights of property which would entitle the owners and persons interested in the lots fronting and abutting upon said Lincoln avenue (or street) ... to damages by reason of the construction,…
1Opinion of the CourtTimms', J.
The principal errors assigned npon the appeal to this conrt and the only errors necessary to he noticed are in refusing to instruct the jury as requested by the appellant and in giving to> the jury the instructions hereinafter referred to. It appeared in evidence that the respondent, a corporation organized as set forth in the statement of facts preceding this opinion and claiming certain rights in the streets of Waukesha under the ordinance there referred to, had been since the year 1898 operating upon the double-track railway in question upon Lincoln avenue in the city of Waukesha electric…
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- Washburn v. Milwaukee & Lake Winnebago RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
- Zehren v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1898
- Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Milwaukee, Racine & Kenosha Electric Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
- Younkin v. Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
- Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad v. EbleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1851
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