Cook v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from -a judgment of the circuit court for Mari-nette county: S. D. Hastings, Je., Circuit Judge. The complaint sets forth four causes of action at law: (1) Eor compensation for the destruction by a fire on the 20th day of May, 1893, of a lumber camp, several buildings, the camp equipage for a large number of men, some lumber, and a quantity of posts, poles, ties, slabs, and other personal property at Corliss, Wis., of the alleged value of $58,820.79, upon the ground…
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Appeal from -a judgment of the circuit court for Mari-nette county: S. D. Hastings, Je., Circuit Judge. The complaint sets forth four causes of action at law: (1) Eor compensation for the destruction by a fire on the 20th day of May, 1893, of a lumber camp, several buildings, the camp equipage for a large number of men, some lumber, and a quantity of posts, poles, ties, slabs, and other personal property at Corliss, Wis., of the alleged value of $58,820.79, upon the ground that a fire was started at a point on defendant’s right of way about a mile and a quarter southwest of such property ‘by…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
The foregoing brief statement is believed to present clearly the only questions necessary to be considered in determining this appeal. Nunierous questions were suggested and errors assigned and exhaustively and ably discussed in the numerous briefs of eminent counsel who represent the parties in this court, most of which questions and alleged errors, in what is deemed to be an orderly consideration of the cause, are not necessarily reached in *634arriving at a final conclusion as to the rights of the parties. That will appear from what follows, and is the reason why such questions have not been…
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