Blesch v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Brown County. Trespass, for damages to plaintiff’s land from the building, maintenance and operation of defendant’s railroad thereon.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Brown County. Trespass, for damages to plaintiff’s land from the building, maintenance and operation of defendant’s railroad thereon. Defendant appealed from an order denying its motion for a stay of proceedings, in this and another like action by the same plaintiff, until an appeal from an award of commissioners in proceedings to condemn land of the plaintiff for its use, should be tried; or for a consolidation of said actions with said appeal. The case is more fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtOetoN, J.
In September, 1873, the respondent commenced a suit against the appellant in the circuit court of Brown county, in trespass, to recover damages to his lands in the city of Green Bay, occasioned by the building and operating of the railway of the appellant upon and near the same. In June, 1876, the respondent commenced a second action against the appellant, in trespass, for damages to the same lands, occasioned in the same way, accruing since the commencement of the first suit. Both of these actions are pending in said court. In October, 1876, commissioners, appointed under ch. 119, Laws of…
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