Wisconsin Central Railroad v. Price County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Price County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday : This action was commenced April 10, 188é, to set aside the taxes levied and assessed on the lands described in the •complaint in the year 1883, and to restrain the defendants from selling the same for the nonpayment of said taxes, on the ground that none of said lands were liable to taxation; in that year, under the act of Congress of May 5, 1864, and…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Price County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday : This action was commenced April 10, 188é, to set aside the taxes levied and assessed on the lands described in the •complaint in the year 1883, and to restrain the defendants from selling the same for the nonpayment of said taxes, on the ground that none of said lands were liable to taxation; in that year, under the act of Congress of May 5, 1864, and the laws of this state. The answer, in effect, alleges that prior to January 1, 1880, the plaintiff had fully completed:…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
By the act of Congress of May 5, 1864, certain lands were granted to the state to aid in the building of three separate lines of railway. 13 Stats, at Large, 66, ch. 80. The third section granted lands to the state in aid of what is now the plaintiff’s line of road. The language of the section is in effect “ that there be and is hereby granted to the state of "Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in the construction ” of said line of road, “ every alternate section of public land designated by odd numbers, for ten sections in width on each side of said road. . . . But in case it shall appear…
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