Village of Pewaukee v. Savoy

Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wauke-sha county: JaMes J. Dick, Circuit Judge. Appeal from a judgment restraining defendants from placing a fence along the street line to obstruct the passage therefrom to the adjoining waters of Pewaukee lake. It was claimed by defendants that tbe land from the street line back some distance into the lake, reaching to where the water came in a state of nature, was private property; that though such land had been submerged for a long term of years by an artificial raising of the lake level, the owner had a right to reclaim the land and exclude…