Attorney General ex rel. Becker v. Bay Boom Wild Rice & Fur Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. Burnell, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to prevent the construction and maintenance and to- secure the removal of an earth embankment built within the water of Lake Poygan, a meandered body of water in Winnebago county, Wisconsin.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. Burnell, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to prevent the construction and maintenance and to- secure the removal of an earth embankment built within the water of Lake Poygan, a meandered body of water in Winnebago county, Wisconsin. The premises involved are situated in the angle formed by the junction of the so-called “Government Boom Cut” with the Wolf river in town 20 north, of range 14 east, and the particular inquiry relates to the five or six hundred acres partially inclosed by the embankment or dike…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed July 17, 1920:
Siebecker, J.
It is substantially conceded that the area of land in controversy lying within the bounds of the Wolf river on the west and north, the Boom cut-off on the north and east, and the dike involved in this action, embraces about 600 acres, and that defendant is in possession thereof; that it has been and now is used as trapping, fishing, and hunting grounds. The court found, among others, the following facts: (1) That the state conveyed this area as lands and that they were in fact swamp lands; (2) that they were injured by the "rise of…
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