Ross v. Severance

The David G. Janes Company, a corporation, the owner of fifty-one acres of land in the northwest quarter of section 8, township 2 north, of range 23 east, Kenosha county, Wisconsin, in 1913 had the property surveyed and a plan or plat made of it, dividing it into parcels. The land was bounded on the west by the right of way of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, and on the east by Lake Michigan. A highway ran across the land from the south in a northeasterly direction. The highway *490was located about one third the distance from the lake shore to the railroad right of way. The parcels,…