Williams v. Lane
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Bayfield County. This action was brought by three several claimants, namely, Williams, Upham & Co., Leihy & Garnich, and A. A. Bigelow & Co. to enforce liens for the amount of their several claims against the docks, sawmill, waterfront-age, and appurtenances' on a lot of land lying along and upon the bay or lake shore at Washburn, in the county of Bayfield, not exceeding forty acres, and particularly described in the complaint, which…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Bayfield County. This action was brought by three several claimants, namely, Williams, Upham & Co., Leihy & Garnich, and A. A. Bigelow & Co. to enforce liens for the amount of their several claims against the docks, sawmill, waterfront-age, and appurtenances' on a lot of land lying along and upon the bay or lake shore at Washburn, in the county of Bayfield, not exceeding forty acres, and particularly described in the complaint, which belonged to the defendant The Northern Pine Land Company, March 1,1888; and the defendant James M. Lane then had a contract for…
1Opinion of the CourtPinney, J.
1. The lot of land described in the pleadings and judgment lies upon and along the water frontage of Ashland bay, a part of the waters of Lake Superior, at Washburn, in Bayfield county, and the owner, by virtue of his riparian ownership, has, as appurtenant to the land, a right to construct, in shoa.1 water in front of his land, proper wharves, piers, or other structures in aid of navigation, and, at his peril of obstructing it, through the water far enough to reach actually navigable water. Such riparian rights proper rest upon title to the bank, and are the same whether the riparian owner…
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