Emmons v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. By virtue of the provisions contained in cb. 141, P. & L. Laws of 1868, the common council of the city of Milwaukee established a park or public grounds within the limits prescribed by the act, and the damages and benefits to lots of individuals appropriated for that purpose were duly assessed by the board of public works, which board is charged by law with that duty.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. By virtue of the provisions contained in cb. 141, P. & L. Laws of 1868, the common council of the city of Milwaukee established a park or public grounds within the limits prescribed by the act, and the damages and benefits to lots of individuals appropriated for that purpose were duly assessed by the board of public works, which board is charged by law with that duty. Such assessments were afterwards confirmed by the common council. In that assessment, under the heading, “ Description of property to be taken for the purpose of establishing a…
1Opinion of the CourtLyON, J.
I. The right of appeal to the circuit court from the award and determination of the board of public works, in this and like cases, is given by sections 3 and 5 of ch. 141, P. and L. Laws of 1868, which are as follows:
“ Sec. 3. In all respects, except as to petition and bond aforesaid, the proceedings in regard to said park or public grounds shall be the same as required by said chapter [ch. 141, Laws of 1852], and the several acts amendatory thereof, in buying, laying out, opening or widening streets ; with the same' *442right of appeal to the circuit court from assessments of damages and…
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