Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co. v. Patten Paper Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE WISCONSIN. This was a suit brought, in 1886, in the circuit court of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, by the Patten Paper Company and others, against the Kaukauna Water Company, the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company and others.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE WISCONSIN. This was a suit brought, in 1886, in the circuit court of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, by the Patten Paper Company and others, against the Kaukauna Water Company, the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company and others. The object of the proceeding, as set forth in the complaint, was to have determined what share or proportion of the flow of Fox River where the same passes Islands Nos. 3 and 4 in township No. 21, north of range No. 18 east, is appurtenant and of right should be permitted to flow in the south, middle and north channels of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shikas
First for our consideration is the motion made by the defendants in error to dismiss the writ of error because the record does not disclose that any Federal question was involved in the controversy, and because no title, right, privilege or immunity claimed under the Constitution of the United States, or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under the United States, was specifically set up or claimed in the trial court or in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin by the plaintiff in error, nor was there any decision in either of said state courts against any…
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