Williams v. Holmes
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR. TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROOK COUNTY. This cause was commenced in a justice’s court in the county of Rock, Tby the plaintiff in error against the qefencja;nys in err or. The plaintiff filed his declara-])efore the justice in writing, in a plea of trespass quare clausum fregit alleging matters in aggravation, and laying the locus in quo in the town of Harmony, in said county of Rock.
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ERROR. TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROOK COUNTY. This cause was commenced in a justice’s court in the county of Rock, Tby the plaintiff in error against the qefencja;nys in err or. The plaintiff filed his declara-])efore the justice in writing, in a plea of trespass quare clausum fregit alleging matters in aggravation, and laying the locus in quo in the town of Harmony, in said county of Rock. The defendants pleaded jointly the general issue, and gave three joint notices of special matter to he given in evidence under the plea of the general issue. The said notices were : First. That the locus in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
The instructions of the court below, in regard to the necessity for a petition to be signed by six freeholders, in order to give the supervisors jurisdiction to lay out a highway, leaves but a single point necessary to be examined here. But for the purpose of settling a rule of evidence which is often called in question on the trial of cases similar to the one at bar, we have thought it our duty to consider and determine the question raised upon the competency of the petition for the laying out of the road, as evidence.
On the trial, the defendants offered in evidence, a…
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