Fleischfresser v. Schmidt
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. Ejectment, for a strip of land about fifty links in width, described as lying between block number three on the west and block number four on the east, in A. J. Snell’s addition to the city of Watertown. In July, 1866, A. J. Snell was the owner and in possession of the premises in dispute, and of the two blocks above described, and of other adjacent lands.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. Ejectment, for a strip of land about fifty links in width, described as lying between block number three on the west and block number four on the east, in A. J. Snell’s addition to the city of Watertown. In July, 1866, A. J. Snell was the owner and in possession of the premises in dispute, and of the two blocks above described, and of other adjacent lands. The plaintiffs put in evidence, “ for the purpose of showing the location of the land described in the complaint and of identifying the same,” said Snell’s addition to the third ward of…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
It was practically admitted on both sides, on the argument, that the plat or diagram offered in evidence was not properly certified and acknowledged so as to entitle it to be recorded. It did not, therefore, operate as a grant of the strip of land in controversy to the public for a public street. Upon that point there would seem to be no room for doubt. It appears that the plat was introduced in evidence by the plaintiffs without objection, for the purpose of showing the location of the land mentioned in the complaint and described in the deed from Snell and wife to them. They claim title…
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