Diana Shooting Club v. Lamoreux
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dodge county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages for trespassing upon an alleged exclusive right to hunt on certain lands. The title to the lands was put in issue by the pleadings. Plaintiff’s right to recover turned on whether it possessed the right claimed. Defendant insisted that the lands were formerly the bed of a lake, and that the state had never parted with its title thereto.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dodge county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages for trespassing upon an alleged exclusive right to hunt on certain lands. The title to the lands was put in issue by the pleadings. Plaintiff’s right to recover turned on whether it possessed the right claimed. Defendant insisted that the lands were formerly the bed of a lake, and that the state had never parted with its title thereto. The following facts were disclosed by the evidence, and are covered, in the main, by the findings of the court: ' Plaintiff is a corporation…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
The first question which naturally engages our attention in considering the assignments of error upon this appeal is, Did the court err in holding that ch. 454, P. & L. Laws of 1867, is unconstitutional? Appellant depends entirely upon the validity of that act to make out a paper title to that which respondent is charged with having violated. 'The trial court decided that the act is invalid because it violates sec. 18, art. IV, of the constitution, which provides:
“No private or local bill which may be passed by the legislature'shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be •expressed…
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