Brickles v. Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wauke-sha county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment entered upon a verdict directed in favor of the appellant for six cents damages and awarding costs to the respondent in a condemnation proceeding.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wauke-sha county: James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment entered upon a verdict directed in favor of the appellant for six cents damages and awarding costs to the respondent in a condemnation proceeding. The appellant acquired title to lot 3 in block B of Had-field’s Second addition to Waukesha, abutting on Lincoln avenue, upon September J, 1903, from one Eugene Horr, who acquired title to the same premises in 1891. The respondent' is an electric street and interurban railway corporation, and' has been since about 1898…
1Opinion of the CourtTimlin, J.
The record in this case is very defective in not presenting the complete petition for condemnation nor the franchise ordinance under which the respondent was operating in the streets of Waukesha, hut enough can he gathered therefrom to inform the court that it is the same corporation, acting under the same franchise and in the same way as shown in the companion cases decided herewith. We will assume, therefore, in this case that the respondent is incorporated for the purpose of carrying on the business of an interurban railway and also carrying on the business of a street railway; that prior…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Pomeroy v. Chicago & Milwaukee RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1870
- Younkin v. Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
- Bohlman v. Green Bay & Lake Pepin Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1872
- Spaulding v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1883
- Babcock v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1900
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- Wilbur Lumber Co. v. Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1908
- Gosa v. Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1908
- Templeton v. Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1908