Jarstadt v. Smith
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Manitowoc County. Trespass to the close. Defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
This is an action for a trespass alleged to have been committed March 27, 1879, by the defendant unlawfully breaking and entering the close of the plaintiff. The defendant denied the alleged trespass, and alleged that the locus i/n quo was at the time a public highway, and had been for more than twenty years, and was the only means of passage to and from his dwelling-house to the public street; and that the alleged trespass consisted in removing obstructions placed there*97in by the plaintiff. The undisputed evidence shows that the defendant had owned the lot where he then resided, for…
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