Damkoehler v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Aeeeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Warren D. Tarrant, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for injury to plaintiff’s property, resulting from the acts of the city of Milwaukee in grading Hadley street, a public street of tbe city.
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Aeeeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Warren D. Tarrant, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for injury to plaintiff’s property, resulting from the acts of the city of Milwaukee in grading Hadley street, a public street of tbe city. Tbe premises in question are described as tbe east 112.50 feet of lot 6 and lot 7 in block 8 in Wechselberg & Elliott’s Subdivision of Lots C and D in tbe Thirteenth Ward of tbe city of Milwaukee, except the north 5.80 feet thereof, which part borders on tbe south limits or line of Hadley street, and lies between this…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 13, 1904:
Siebeokbb, J.
It is an uncontroverted fact upon the record before us that plaintiff’s premises do not front or abut upon Hadley street. A strip of land 5.80 feet in width lies between Hadley street and the portion of lot 6 owned by the plaintiff. This situation of her premises leaves them removed from the southerly margin of Hadley street by the width of this strip. The defendant’s charter (sec. 2, ch. YII) provides that “grading, graveling, and planking, macadamizing, or paving to the center of any street or alley . . . shall be chargeable to…
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