Lang v. . Development Co.

Civil action heard on return to preliminary restraining order. The action was for the purpose of restraining defendant company for entering and trespassing upon plaintiff's lands without warrant of law, defendants claiming the right to do so under and by virtue of ch. 141, Laws 1915, entitled "An act to encourage the reclamation and improvement of swamp and lowlands."

On the hearing it was made to appear that defendants were proceeding to cut a large canal through the lands of plaintiff, and there was evidence on part of plaintiff that he was a minority landowner lying along the route of the…