In re Catfish River Drainage District
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from an order organizing certain lands located in sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, and 18 of the town of Windsor, and sections 13 and 24 of the town of Vienna, into a drainage district to be known as the Catfish River Drainage District, and from the order appointing commissioners.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from an order organizing certain lands located in sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, and 18 of the town of Windsor, and sections 13 and 24 of the town of Vienna, into a drainage district to be known as the Catfish River Drainage District, and from the order appointing commissioners. In accordance with the provisions of sec. 1379 — 11, Stats., the petitioners, desiring to organize a drainage districf, filed in the circuit court for Dane county, where the lands are situated, a petition for the…
1Opinion of the CourtDoerfler, J.
The first four assignments of error relied upon by appellants challenge the court’s conclusion in including in the petition the Falk lands and the granting of the supplemental petitions of Linde, ITustad, and Johnson.
While the Falk lands were not included in the proposed district as shown by the blue-print map filed with the petition, nevertheless Falk was one of the signers of the original petition and his lands were specifically described therein, and the court therefore held that his lands.were properly included. From the provisions of the drainage act above referred to, the Falk lands…
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