Jones v. United States
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lao County. On the 21st of April, 1875,- the plaintiffs, Fra7ik L. Jones, administrator of the estate of George J. Pumpelly, deceased, James F. Pumpelly and Fdwm G. Gray, filed in the office of the clerk of said circuit court a petition, duly verified, addressed to the lion.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lao County. On the 21st of April, 1875,- the plaintiffs, Fra7ik L. Jones, administrator of the estate of George J. Pumpelly, deceased, James F. Pumpelly and Fdwm G. Gray, filed in the office of the clerk of said circuit court a petition, duly verified, addressed to the lion. Campbell McLean, jadge of the fourth judicial circuit of "Wisconsin, asking him to appoint three commissioners of appraisal pursuant to ch. 119 of the general laws of this state for 1872, and the amendments thereto, for the appraisal of certain lands in said petition described,…
1Opinion of the CourtOeton, J.
The state of Wisconsin, in making the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, under the act of congress of August 8, 1846, making a grant of lands for such purpose, and the act of the legislature of Wisconsin of June 29, 1848, accepting the trust, constructed, as a part of such improvement, the dam by means of which the lands of the plaintiffs were overflowed and damaged. Any question which might otherwise have arisen, whether such flowing of and consequential damages to the lands of the plaintiffs by means of such dam constitute a taking of such lands for public use *404under the right of…
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