City of New Lisbon v. Harebo

The original petition sets forth, (1) that the petitioner is a municipal corporation; (2) that the proceedings are -for the purpose of “extending and enhancing the beauty of the public parks, parkways, and pleasure drives of the city of New Lisbon and to create as a part thereof a pond and artificial lake to be used solely for recreational and con-servational purposes, which pond and artificial lake is to be created by constructing a dam across the ‘Large’ Lemonweir river, . . . approximately at the old damsite(3) that the hereinafter described lands cannot be acquired by gift, and that the…