State v. Sutherland

Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rock county: Ohestee A. Fowlee, Judge. Action brought "by the attorney general to. abate as a public nuisance a building. standing on piles in the bed of Rock river at Janesville., Wisconsin. The complaint alleged that the defendant, without any authority or permission from the legislature, had erected in the bed of Rock river a building supported by piles and piers of concrete and stone and had filled in from the west bank of the river at the west end of the Milwaukee street bridge, and that the structures so erected constituted obstructions in…