Williams v. Giblin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Rock County. This action was commenced October 29, 1890, for unlawfully and with force breaking and entering upon the S. E. J of the N. W. \ of section 22, township No. 4 N., of range No. 10 E., and cutting down and destroying one rod of the plaintiff’s fence and one gate upon the plaintiff’s said lands and possessions, September 19, 1890, and at divers other times, to the plaintiff’s damage in the sum of $100. The answer alleged, in effect,…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Rock County. This action was commenced October 29, 1890, for unlawfully and with force breaking and entering upon the S. E. J of the N. W. \ of section 22, township No. 4 N., of range No. 10 E., and cutting down and destroying one rod of the plaintiff’s fence and one gate upon the plaintiff’s said lands and possessions, September 19, 1890, and at divers other times, to the plaintiff’s damage in the sum of $100. The answer alleged, in effect, that the locus m quo was a public highway, and had been for more than forty years, and also that the defendant was…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
It is conceded that during the times in question the plaintiff was the owner and in possession of the south half of the northwest quarter of section 22, in the township of Union, Rock county; that for a great many years there has been a public highway, known as the “ Union and Evansville Road,” running north and south upon the east line of the plaintiff’s land; that about a mile and a quarter west of that highway there has been, during the time mentioned, what is known as the “ Madison and Beloit Road;” that in the record book of the town there appears to be the record of an order bearing…
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