City of Waukesha v. Randles
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: James J. Dice, Circuit Judge. Appellant is a city of the fourth class under the general charter law. This action was brought to restrain the re*-spondents from forcibly interfering with and preventing the city’s officers and servants from grading and rebuilding sidewalks in front of respondents’ lots on portions of Hartwell and Arcadian avenues.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: James J. Dice, Circuit Judge. Appellant is a city of the fourth class under the general charter law. This action was brought to restrain the re*-spondents from forcibly interfering with and preventing the city’s officers and servants from grading and rebuilding sidewalks in front of respondents’ lots on portions of Hartwell and Arcadian avenues. It is admitted that respondents own lots abutting on the avenues, as alleged in the complaint; that the board of public works, July 15, 1902, passed a resolution declaring the sidewalks…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebeckeR, J.
The city commenced this action to restrain respondents from forcible and violent interference with the •officers and employees of the city in making an improvement of that portion of the streets which pass over the property of respondents. From the foregoing statement of ■facts, it appears that the city officers and those acting under their direction began to rebuild a sidewalk in front of respondents’ premises, and that respondent J. M. Randles forcibly obstructed them, destroying material and imple*474ments, and threatening personal violence to those engaged in executing the orders of the city.…
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