Legal Opinion

O'Brien v. McGrane

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1871PublishedCited by 10 opinions

APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee county. Ejectment. The defendant appeals from a judgment for the plaintiff. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.

James Kneeland, being the owner of lot nineteen in block 145, in the fourth ward of the city of Milwaukee, subdivided the same, in 1867, into four lots, numbered from one to four inclusive, and duly recorded a plat of such subdivision. These lots all front on West Water street, and are marked on the plat as having an aggregate frontage of ninety-one feet, as follows: lot one, thirty-one feet; and lots two, three and four, twenty feet each. A survey made after such plat was recorded, demonstrated that such aggregate frontage was only 89^0 feet, or about twenty-two inches less than ninety-one…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jones v. KimbleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1865

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Quinnin v. ReimersMichigan Supreme Court · 1881
  2. Childs v. NelsohWisconsin Supreme Court · 1887
  3. Lewis v. PrienWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
  4. Pereles v. MagoonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
  5. Miller v. Topeka Land Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1890

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