Legal Opinion

Welch v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided June 15, 1870PublishedCited by 16 opinions

APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. The defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The question presented by the record will sufficiently appear from the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.

This was an appeal to the circuit court of Dane county from the appraisement of commissioners appointed under the charter of the railway company to assess the damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the taking of certain lands of his by the company for right of way. In the circuit court there was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which the company appeals. The facts of the case, upon which the questions of law arise, are thus succinctly stated in the brief of the learned counsel for the company : The plaintiff was the owner *109of certain lots in the city of Madison, upon…

2Cited by16 opinions

  1. Barnes v. North Carolina State Highway CommissionSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1959
  2. Lincoln v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
  3. Chicago & West Michigan Railway Co. v. HuncheonIndiana Supreme Court · 1892
  4. Driver v. Western Union RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
  5. Jeffery v. OsborneWisconsin Supreme Court · 1911

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