Grunert v. Spalding
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Oconto county: S. I). Hastings, Je., Circuit Judge. By an act of Congress of March. 3,1863 (12 Stats, at Large, 191), there were granted to the states of Wisconsin and Michigan certain lands as aid for the construction of a military road from Et. Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw county, in the state of Michigan, to Et. Howard, Creen Bay,, in the state of Wisconsin.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Oconto county: S. I). Hastings, Je., Circuit Judge. By an act of Congress of March. 3,1863 (12 Stats, at Large, 191), there were granted to the states of Wisconsin and Michigan certain lands as aid for the construction of a military road from Et. Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw county, in the state of Michigan, to Et. Howard, Creen Bay,, in the state of Wisconsin. That grant was accepted by the state of Wisconsin, by ch. 418, Laws of 1864, by which act-was created a commission authorized to survey and contract for the construction of such a…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed March 14,1899:
Dodge, J.
1. The first question which naturally arises, and the only one which affects all of the causes of action, is whether or not the lands in the year 1876 were within the taxing jurisdiction of the officers of the town of Marinette. It is vigorously contended by the appellants that because this town has been laid out and extended northwesterly from township 30, range 23 east, to township 42, range 11 east, thus having a length of about 110 miles, and there being places in the course of such extension where said town was only two or three…
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