Holton v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The plaintiff owned “lot 1, in the partition of lot 1,” in a certain section of land included within the limits of the city of Milwaukee. The southern boundary of the lot is the middle line, or the thread, of the south branch of the Menomonee river.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The plaintiff owned “lot 1, in the partition of lot 1,” in a certain section of land included within the limits of the city of Milwaukee. The southern boundary of the lot is the middle line, or the thread, of the south branch of the Menomonee river. For the purpose of constructing canals in ¿the Menom-onee valley, under chap. 91, P. & L. Laws of 1869, the defendant city ordered said south branch of the Menomonee river, opposite plaintiffs said lot (and elsewhere) to be widened, and took for that purpose a strip across the southern end of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDrxow, C. J.
The questions presented in this case depend wholly upon the proper construction and effect of certain provisions in the charter of the city of Milwaukee, regulating the manner of estimating the damages of the owner, and appraising the value of land taken in the laying out and opening of streets, and also the manner of making assessments to defray the cost and expense of grading, graveling, planking or paving streets in that city; which provisions in the charter have been adopted and made applicable to the work of laying out, establishing and constructing a system of canals, water channels or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Nichols v. City of BridgeportSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1854
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- Johnson v. City of MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
- Zwietusch v. Village of East MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1915
- Koller v. City of La CrosseWisconsin Supreme Court · 1900