Hartung v. County of Milwaukee

The quarry premises lie approximately 10 per cent within the Milwaukee city limits and 90 per cent within the city limits of Wauwatosa. Milwaukee county owns the Menomonee river parkway and drive which adjoins the quarry premises to the west. The property which includes the quarry was owned by the Hartung family since 1880. It was originally worked as a farm and in 1910 the first quarrying was done in the area by the plaintiff Walter Har-tung and his father, Frederick Hartung. The farm consisted of 148 acres, from what is now North Ninety-Second street to the west side of the Menomonee river.…