Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat & Power Co. v. Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co.

The Traction Company,' the petitioner below, concededly a public utility, sought to condemn certain property and rights of the appellant corporation, the Canal Company, under an exercise of the right of eminent domain through the proceedings outlined in ch. 32, Stats. The appellant challenges the right of the Traction Company so to do, on the ground that the Canal Company is also a *63public utility and protected from condemnation proceedings by sec. 32.03, found in the same chapter, and which provides that the general power of condemnation in that chapter shall not extend, unless specifically…