State v. Hayden
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. Action, commenced in justice’s court, to recover the statutory penalty for obstructing a highway. Answer, no highway, and that defendant had title to the locus in quo ; and the cause was duly removed to the circuit court.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Grant County. Action, commenced in justice’s court, to recover the statutory penalty for obstructing a highway. Answer, no highway, and that defendant had title to the locus in quo ; and the cause was duly removed to the circuit court. It appeared from the evidence there introduced, that commissioners appointed by an act of the territorial legislature, entitled “ an act to locate a territorial road in Grant and Iowa counties,” approved June 23, 1838, had laid out, in pursuance of that act, during the same year, a road from Osceola, in Grant county, to…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed at the January term, 1873.
Cole, J.
A motion was made to dismiss the appeal in this case; and, although that motion has already been decided, yet no opinion has been filed indicating the view we took of the questions raised by it. The point is deemed of sufficient importance to justify a few remarks before we proceed to consider the case upon the merits.
The action is brought to recover' the penalty given by the statute for the willful obstruction of a public highway. Sec. 101, ch. 19, R S.; also sec. 101, ch. 152, Laws of 1869. On the trial the verdict was for…
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