Hoyt v. City of Hudson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for St. Croix County. This was an action to recover damages claimed to have accrued from the grading and raising of a street in the city of Hudson, whereby the surface waters, running through a ravine across the premises of the plaintiff adjacent to the street, were obstructed in their flow and and set back upon the said premises.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for St. Croix County. This was an action to recover damages claimed to have accrued from the grading and raising of a street in the city of Hudson, whereby the surface waters, running through a ravine across the premises of the plaintiff adjacent to the street, were obstructed in their flow and and set back upon the said premises. The complaint alleged that the flow of the said waters was a natural water-course, running across the plaintiff’s real estate and across the said street, and that by reason of the embankment raised in grading the said street, the waters…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
In Pettigrew v. The Village of Evansville, 25 Wis. 223, this court had occasion to examine the subject and express its views very fully as to the rights and liabilities of conterminous proprietors of lands with respect to the obstruction and flow of mere surface water; and to say when, in its opinion, and under what circumstances, by what means, and to what extent, the owner of land might obstruct and prevent the natural and customary flow thereon of such water, and turn the same back upon or off on to or over the lands of others, without liability for injuries thus caused to the lands of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Mills v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1865
- Livingston v. McDonaldSupreme Court of Iowa · 1866
- Pettigrew v. Village of EvansvilleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1870
- Chatfield v. WilsonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1855
- Gillham v. Madison County RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1869
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- Abbott v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1884
- Simmons v. WintersOregon Supreme Court · 1891
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