Ruhland v. Jones
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The cáse is thus stated by Mr. Justice Taxloe: “ This action was brought to enjoin the defendants from opening a highway through the lands of the plaintiffs.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The cáse is thus stated by Mr. Justice Taxloe: “ This action was brought to enjoin the defendants from opening a highway through the lands of the plaintiffs. The complaint alleges that the defendants are supervisors of the town of Hazel Green; that they claim that they have legally laid out a highway in said town through the lands of the plaintiffs, and have given the plaintiffs notice to remove their fences out of said highway, and threaten that in case said fences are not removed, they, the supervisors, will enter upon their lands and remove…
1Opinion of the CourtTatloe, J.
For the reasons stated in the opinion now filed in the case of Ruhland and another v. The Supervisors of the Town of Hazel Green, ante, p. 664:, this court holds that the proceedings of said board of supervisors in laying out said highway are irregular and void. We therefore hold that the proceedings of the board of supervisors set out in the complaint in this action are no justification to said board for their threatened invasion of the lands and premises of the plaintiffs, and, upon the authority of the decision of this court in the case of Church v. Joint School District, ante, p. 399,…
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