Kreckeberg v. Leslie
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: JohN GoodlaNd, Circuit Judge. Action of ejectment for three small parcels of land. It appeared that plaintiffs were the owners of the W. ^ of the S. E. of section 28, except a strip' in the northwest corner thereof fourteen rods long east and west, by two rods wide ■north and south. Defendant was the owner of the land north of the plaintiffs’, including said fourteen-rod strip.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: JohN GoodlaNd, Circuit Judge. Action of ejectment for three small parcels of land. It appeared that plaintiffs were the owners of the W. ^ of the S. E. of section 28, except a strip' in the northwest corner thereof fourteen rods long east and west, by two rods wide ■north and south. Defendant was the owner of the land north of the plaintiffs’, including said fourteen-rod strip. Eull paper title was established by the plaintiffs, and the -defendant denied claim or possession of one of the parcels, except the west thirty-three…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
1. The judgment in this case must be reversed for the reason that a portion of the land, of which paper title, is conceded to be in plaintiffs, and to which defendant sets up adverse claim in his answer, is not clearly shown to have been used either by the public or by the defendant adversely for any definite period of time, if at all. The defendant claims that all of parcels “ one ” and “ two ” lying within thirty-three feet of the north and south quarter-section line has been occupied, used, and traveled adversely to plaintiffs for more than twenty years. His proof shows, or tends to show,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lamoreux v. HuntleyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1887
3Cited by2 opinions
- Griswold v. NicholsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1905
- T. D. Kellogg Lumber & Manufacturing Co. v. Webster Manufacturing Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1909