Legal Opinion

Stevens Point Boom Co. v. Reilly

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1879PublishedCited by 14 opinions

APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Columbia, County. After the decision of the court in a former appeal herein (44 Wis., 295), the case having been remitted to the circuit court, defendants moved that court to modify the injunctional order previously made, in accordance with the opinion of this court.

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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Columbia, County. After the decision of the court in a former appeal herein (44 Wis., 295), the case having been remitted to the circuit court, defendants moved that court to modify the injunctional order previously made, in accordance with the opinion of this court. The modification asked by the defendants was, that the order should be made to read as follows: “It is ordered that said defendants and each of them, their attorneys, agents and assistants, and each and every of them, under the penalties by law prescribed, do absolutely desist and refrain from…

1Opinion of the Court

EyaN, O. J.

This appeal was submitted on printed briefs; and these sufficiently show that the parties regard the appeal as involving some substantial right. An argument at the bar *242would probably have instructed the court in the nature of such right, and how it is affected by the order from which the appeal is taken. As it is, the court is left very much to conjecture; and, as the previous decisions of the court are here understood, the controversy appears to be rather in the nature of a skirmish of words than a war of things.

It may be said, in passing, that of late the bar seems to put less…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Atlee v. Packet Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1875
  2. Dutton v. StrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1861
  3. Diedrich v. Northwestern Union Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1877
  4. Stevens Point Boom Co. v. ReillyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1878
  5. Barnes v. City of RacineWisconsin Supreme Court · 1856

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. City of Janesville v. CarpenterWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
  2. J. S. Keator Lumber Co. v. St. Croix Boom Corp.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1888
  3. Doemel v. JantzWisconsin Supreme Court · 1923
  4. City of Milwaukee v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1927
  5. Cohn v. Wausau Boom Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1879

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