Krcmar v. Wisconsin River Power Co.

Plaintiff is a farmer owning 268 acres of land in Juneau county. In 1949 defendant completed the construction of a dam across the Wisconsin river which created a body of water known as Petenwell lake two or three miles east of the lands in question. Defendant located a dike west of the river.

Plaintiff claimed damages to his land in 1950 by seepage water from the lake, and was paid $1,627.30, giving a receipt therefor and a release in writing “from all claims for damages to crops, cropland, pastureland, and woodlands and from all damages of every kind and nature by reason of injury I have…