Legal Opinion

Brown v. La Crosse City Gas Light & Coke Co.

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1863PublishedCited by 10 opinions

APPEAL from the County Court for La Crosse county, from an order allowing an amendment of a petition and complaint, in an action to establish and enforce a mechanic’s lien. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court,

Cole, J.

We do not think the amendment in this case was material. In the petition for the lien, and in the complaint, the property was described as the several buildings known as “ the gas works of the La Crosse City Gas Light and Coke Company but there was a mistake in giving the description of the lots upon which the premises were situated, by numbers and blocks. The amendment made gave a correct description of the land upon which the gas works w ere situated, by metes and bounds. If a deed had been made conveying this property as the “ several buildings known as the gas works…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Witte v. MeyerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1860

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Goodrich Lumber Co. v. DavieMontana Supreme Court · 1893
  2. Huse v. WashburnWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
  3. Tulloch v. RogersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
  4. Brown v. WrightMissouri Court of Appeals · 1887
  5. Dusick v. GeeenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1903

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