Wright v. Day
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Ejectment. The facts are fully stated in the opinion. argued that the words “ meander line,” as used in the west, had a well-defined meaning. Railroad Company v. Schurmeir, 7 Wal., 272; Yates v. Judd, 18 Wis., 118 ; Walker v. Shepardson, 4 Wis., 486 ; Wisconsin River Improvement Co. v. Lyons, 30 Wis., 61. The parties must be presumed to have used these words in this well-defined sense. See 1 Tay.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. Ejectment. The facts are fully stated in the opinion. argued that the words “ meander line,” as used in the west, had a well-defined meaning. Railroad Company v. Schurmeir, 7 Wal., 272; Yates v. Judd, 18 Wis., 118 ; Walker v. Shepardson, 4 Wis., 486 ; Wisconsin River Improvement Co. v. Lyons, 30 Wis., 61. The parties must be presumed to have used these words in this well-defined sense. See 1 Tay. Stats., 749 ; Houck on Rivers, sec. 151; Middleton v. Pritchard, 3 Scam., 510; opinion of Whiton, O. J, in Jones v. Pettibone, 2 Wis., 308 ;…
1Opinion of the CourtDixoN, C. J.
The sole question in this case is upon the meaning and effect of the words, the meander line of said river, occurring in the description of the land conveyed by the plaintiff to Fletcher in 1855, and which description, or that part of it material to our present inquiry, was as follows: “ Thence due south, parallel with the west line of Division street in Jackson’s plat of said city, to Fox river, thence northwesterly and along the meander line of said river to the southeast corner of lot No. five.” The plaintiff showed title under a patent from the United States, of a tract of land bordering…
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