Bates v. City of Beloit
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rock county: John R. Bennett, Circuit Judge. In 1837 one Horace White came from New Hampshire to what is now Beloit, Wisconsin, for the purpose of establishing a town there. He acquired a possession, with an indefinite possessory right, of certain lands from a squatter, while R. P. Crane and Otis P. Bicknell made claim to certain adjoining lands.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rock county: John R. Bennett, Circuit Judge. In 1837 one Horace White came from New Hampshire to what is now Beloit, Wisconsin, for the purpose of establishing a town there. He acquired a possession, with an indefinite possessory right, of certain lands from a squatter, while R. P. Crane and Otis P. Bicknell made claim to certain adjoining lands. He caused to be prepared a town plat in 1838, which wasnever recorded, but which was lithographed, and published by exposure in the most public places in the settlement of Beloit, and known as the…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
In the view we have taken of one of the questions presented, it will be unnecessary to decide several other interesting ones discussed by the briefs. It is contended by the defendant that although the Hopkins plat was decided to be invalidly executed, in Gardiner v. Tisdale, 2 Wis. 153, because the certificate of acknowledgment was annexed thereto, instead of being indorsed thereon, that holding has been overruled in subsequent decisions of this court. Weisbrod v. C. & N. W. R. Co. 18 Wis. 35; Ranis v. Pulton, 52 Wis. 657; and State v. Schwin, 65 Wis. 207. Further, that in any event the…
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- Bartlett v. BeardmoreWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
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