Shepardson v. Milwaukee & Beloit Railroad
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM THE MILWAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. This was an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Milwaukee county, dissolving an injunction.
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APPEAL PROM THE MILWAUKEE CIRCUIT COURT. This was an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Milwaukee county, dissolving an injunction. The action was commenced April 21, 1857, by serving and filing a complaint, in substance, as follows: “Tiie complaint of the above named plaintiff respectfully shows to this court that the Milwaukee & Eeloit Railroad Company are a body politic, incorporated by tlie legislature of this state, by act approved March 29, 1855, entitled an act to incorporate the Milwaukee & Beloit Railroad Company, that the plaintiff now is, and for more than twelve years…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Whitow, C. J
This case came hereby appeal from an order of the circuit court of Milwaukee county, dissolving an injunction which had been previously granted restraining the defendants from constructing their road across the land of the plaintiff.
The facts in the case, so far as they relate to the question presented, are as follows.
On the fourteenth day of April, 1857, theE. E. company by their agents entered upon the land of the plaintiff, and com*612menced the construction of their road, without the consent of the plaintiff, taking exclusive possession of a portion of the land,…
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