Ruhland v. Supervisors of the Town of Hazel Green
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The ease is thus stated by Mr. Justice Taylor: “ This is a proceeding by common law writ of certiorari to review the proceedings of the board of supervisors of said town of Hazel Green in laying out a highway through the lands of the plaintiffs.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. The ease is thus stated by Mr. Justice Taylor: “ This is a proceeding by common law writ of certiorari to review the proceedings of the board of supervisors of said town of Hazel Green in laying out a highway through the lands of the plaintiffs. The writ was issued by the circuit court for Grant county, and upon the return to the writ in that court judgment was entered affirming the proceedings of the town board laying out said highway, and from that judgment the plaintiffs appealed to this court. “ The record of the proceedings shows that a…
1Opinion of the CourtTayloR, J.
Upon the record it is alleged by the learned counsel for the appellants that the board of supervisors, by their adjournment of the hearing of the petition from October 27 to December 1, 1880, lost all jurisdiction of the subject matter of said petition, and that their subsequent order made on said first day of December, laying out the highway, is void. On the other side, it is alleged by the learned counsel for the respondents that these plaintiffs are estopped from questioning the authority of the board to make the order by having consented to the adjournment. This court has repeatedly held…
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