Angelo v. Railroad Commission

Appellants below, riparian owners on Lime lake, challenge, as in violation of rights claimed to be secured to them under the federal and Wisconsin constitutions, the act of the Railroad Commission in granting power and authority to certain third persons to enter upon such a lake or body of water and remove marl from the bed thereof, to the commercial gain of such third persons and over the objections of plaintiff, and without compensation to them.

The main question upon which the parties stand or fall in this case is whether the legislature was inhibited by constitutional provisions from…