Whitney v. Detroit Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Ma/rmette County. Tbe facts are thus stated by Mr. Justice Oassoday: This action is to recover the value of 322,000 feet of white pine saw-logs, which had been cut from section 9 in township 39 N. of range 15 E., in Wisconsin, described and alleged to be worth $3,220, which it is alleged the defendant wrongfully took, May, 25,1888, from the possession of the plaintiffs, and brought into Marinette county, and there unjustly detained, to the…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Ma/rmette County. Tbe facts are thus stated by Mr. Justice Oassoday: This action is to recover the value of 322,000 feet of white pine saw-logs, which had been cut from section 9 in township 39 N. of range 15 E., in Wisconsin, described and alleged to be worth $3,220, which it is alleged the defendant wrongfully took, May, 25,1888, from the possession of the plaintiffs, and brought into Marinette county, and there unjustly detained, to the plaintiffs’ damage in the sum stated, and for which value and damages judgment is demanded. The answer is a general…
1Opinion of the CourtCassodav, J.
The logs in question were cut and removed from the S. E. J of the N. W. J of the section, had it been *245full. That forty, according to the United States government survey, was wholly in the lake, but, as a matter of fact, no part of it was ever in the lake, hut the whole of the same was high and dry ground, except that Pine river, which is not a navigable stream, runs through the northern portion of it. The plaintiffs claim title to the locus im, quo wholly by virtue of having acquired the title to fractional lot numbered 3 in said section, according to. such government survey. That fractional…
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