State ex rel. City of Milwaukee v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: F. 0. Esohweileb, Circuit Judge. Tbe appeal is from an order overruling a demurrer to a return to an alternative writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the CourtTiMLiN, J.
Tbe relation for tbe alternative writ averred that Lisbon avenue bad been paved with a cedar block pavement resting upon planks laid on a sand foundation prior to its occupation by respondent railway. This cedar block pavement extended from curb to curb and tbe full length of that portion of Lisbon avenue in question. Recently tbe city of Milwauhee paved tbe portion of Lisbon avenue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-seventh streets and between tbe curb and a line one foot from tbe rail nearest to such curb with asphalt pavement upon a concrete foundation. Tbe former wooden block pavement in…
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