Kaukauna Water Power Co. v. Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF OUTAGAMIE COUNTY, WISCONSIN. The court stated the case as follows-: This was a complaint in the nature of a bill in equity filed in the Circuit Court of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, by the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company against the Kaukauna Water Power Company, and a number of other defendants, lessees and tenants of the Water Power Company, for the purpose of enjoining them from interfering with the plaintiff' and- its employes while…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF OUTAGAMIE COUNTY, WISCONSIN. The court stated the case as follows-: This was a complaint in the nature of a bill in equity filed in the Circuit Court of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, by the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company against the Kaukauna Water Power Company, and a number of other defendants, lessees and tenants of the Water Power Company, for the purpose of enjoining them from interfering with the plaintiff' and- its employes while engaged in maintaining, repairing and rebuilding a certain embankment and drain upon a certain lot of land upon the bank…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brown,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.(1) The only question involved in this case proper for us to consider, is whether the act of the legislature of Wisconsin of August 8, 1848, reserving to the State the water power created by the erection of the dam over the Fox Biter, as construed by the Supreme Court of the State, and the proceedings thereunder, operated to deprive the plaintiffs in error of 'their property without due process of law. Notwithstanding the inhibition of the Constitution is not distinctly put in issue by the pleadings, nor directly…
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