Milwaukee Trust Co. v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: LawRenoe W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff as trustee of the estate of Alonzo L. Kane is tbe owner of part of lot eleven (11) and all of lot twelve (12) in block 220 of A. L. Kane’s subdivision in tbe Eighteenth ward of the city of Milwaukee.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: LawRenoe W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff as trustee of the estate of Alonzo L. Kane is tbe owner of part of lot eleven (11) and all of lot twelve (12) in block 220 of A. L. Kane’s subdivision in tbe Eighteenth ward of the city of Milwaukee. These lots abut .on Oakland avenue, of which the grade was established by an ordinance-of the city council on February 13, 1888. On August 8, 1904, the common council adopted a resolution declaring that it was “necessary for the public interest to-grade and macadamize the roadway,…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecKER, J.
Tbe plaintiff appealed, in a proceeding under the provisions of cb. YII of tbe Milwaukee city char*248ter for relief against an unjust allowance of damages caused to the property owned by it as trustee.
Sec. 8 of eb. YII of the city charter provides that the owners of lands which may be affected or injured in consequence of the alteration of the grade of a street theretofore graded to a former established grade shall be entitled to compensation therefor. This section also provides that such damages and the costs and charges involved in improving the street, as provided by sec. 7, and changing the…
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