Warden v. Blakley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Fayette County. This action was brought against Justus Blakley to recover damages for alleged trespasses upon lot 1 in Warden & Brunner's Addition to Darlington, of which plaintiffs claimed to be the owners in fee.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Fayette County. This action was brought against Justus Blakley to recover damages for alleged trespasses upon lot 1 in Warden & Brunner's Addition to Darlington, of which plaintiffs claimed to be the owners in fee. The answer denied plaintiffs’ title and possession, and alleged that defendant had had actual possession of the land in question for twelve years then last past, holding such possession by permission of the proper authority, and that said land was a public street or common of said village of Dar-lington. The land in dispute was a part of…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed at the January term, 1870.
Cole, J.
We think it perfectly clear upon the face of the plat itself, offered in evidence, that Alice street extends along the south side of block 20, and consequently that the locus in quo is a part of one of the public streets of the village of Dar-lington, The argument of the counsel for the respondent in support of this construction of the plat is unanswerable. The subdivision of the lots in block 20 shows that it was the intention of the original proprietor that Alice street should extend south of that block. But it is objected on…
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