J. S. Keator Lumber Co. v. St. Croix Boom Corp.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Si. Groix County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice C'assoday: This action was brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by Walker, Judd & Yeazie, in the summer of 1883, by reason of a jam of saw-logs in the St. Croix river, caused by the acts and negligence of the defendant and its booming works, and which damages were transferred to the plaintiffs.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Si. Groix County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice C'assoday: This action was brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by Walker, Judd & Yeazie, in the summer of 1883, by reason of a jam of saw-logs in the St. Croix river, caused by the acts and negligence of the defendant and its booming works, and which damages were transferred to the plaintiffs. It is alleged in the complaint, among other things, in effect, that Walker, Judd & Yeazie had for manjr years been engaged in cutting, hauling, banking, and driving…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 20, 1888:
Cassoday, J.
The general description of the St. Croix river, as given in the answer and above stated, seems to be *76verified to some extent by the map. The lower end or widened part of the river is known as Lake St. Croix. The city of Stillwater is situated near the upper end of this lake, on the Minnesota side, and is some thirty miles above where the lake empties into the Mississippi. It is conceded that no part of the upper boom, mentioned in the eleventh section of the charter printed above, located between the head of Cedar Bend, eighteen miles…
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