Dickinson v. Smith
Wisconsin Supreme Court
(Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: Jomr Goodlaed, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered in an action of ejectment brought to recover a strip of land about three feet wide and sixty feet long claimed hy the respondent to he a part of lot 1 in block H in the Eirst ward of the city of Appleton, and hy the appellants to he a part of lot 3 in the same block.
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(Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Outa-gamie county: Jomr Goodlaed, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered in an action of ejectment brought to recover a strip of land about three feet wide and sixty feet long claimed hy the respondent to he a part of lot 1 in block H in the Eirst ward of the city of Appleton, and hy the appellants to he a part of lot 3 in the same block. The land in question lies in government lot No. 1, section 26, township 21 north, of range 17 east, which, with other adjoining lands in section 25 of the same town and range, on September 15,…
1Opinion of the CourtTimliN, J.
The original survey and plat of Lawesburg-must control the location of the boundary between the parties. The starting point of this survey and for any resurvey thereof is definitely described and easily located. The section line between sections 25 and 26 is' a known north and south line running through blocks 3, 6, 11, and 13 of Lawe’s plat near their eastern end as displayed on Stephens’ map. A point on the Eox river and forty-three rods and ten feet west of this section line is easily located and forms a definite starting *12point, and from this point we run north to find the west line of the…
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