In re Horicon Drainage District
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Dodge county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from an order of the circuit.court for Dodge county in a proceeding to establish a drainage district under secs. 1379 — 11 to 1379 — 31, Stats. 1898, and acts, amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. The petition was signed by a corporation known as the Rock River Valley Lumber Company and others.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Dodge county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from an order of the circuit.court for Dodge county in a proceeding to establish a drainage district under secs. 1379 — 11 to 1379 — 31, Stats. 1898, and acts, amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. The petition was signed by a corporation known as the Rock River Valley Lumber Company and others. It alleges, in substance, that the proposed district extends from the northern line of Dodge county southerly through Horicon marsh, the city of Horicon, and beyond the village of…
1Opinion of the CourtKeewist, J.
It is contended on the part of the respond•ents that the order is not appealable, and, if this position is tenable, no other question presented need be considered. The decision of the court appointing commissioners having been made on the 9th day of June, 1905, and before ch. 419, Laws of 1905, went into effect, the latter law has no application, *45and the appealability of the order must be determined by the-law as it existed at the time the court made its decision. The fact that the order was entered on June 27 th, five days after ch. 419 went into effect, is of no consequence, since the…
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