Eau Claire Dells Improvement Co. v. City of Eau Claire
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: A. H. Reid, Judge. Action to restrain the city of Eau Claire from declaring a forfeiture under a contract for the construction and lease of a dam and water power across the Chippewa river at Eau Claire, entered into between the city and the Eau Claire Dells Improvement Company, hereinafter called the Improvement Company, February 17, 1877, and to declare the rights of the city and of plaintiffs under said…
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Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: A. H. Reid, Judge. Action to restrain the city of Eau Claire from declaring a forfeiture under a contract for the construction and lease of a dam and water power across the Chippewa river at Eau Claire, entered into between the city and the Eau Claire Dells Improvement Company, hereinafter called the Improvement Company, February 17, 1877, and to declare the rights of the city and of plaintiffs under said contract. The answer and cross-complaint of the city asked for a' dismissal of the complaint upon the merits; that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed July \7\ 1920:
Vinje, J.
The city has twelve assignments of error, but they may all be grouped into three main divisions, as many of them relate to the question of estoppel or‘ waiver, and others become immaterial if the facts found by the trial1 court are sustained. We shall spend no time discussing the attack upon the findings of fact further than to state they are well sustained by the evidence and must stand- as verities in treating the legal questions arising therefrom.
The city claims the trial court erred in finding and adjudging (1) that the contract of…
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