Shaw v. Ward
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe_ county court of Jefferson county: Geoeg-e Grimm:, Judge. Equitable action for a mandatory injunction compelling defendants to close up a ditch made to drain surface water from their lands whereby it flowed ,by way of adjoining lands to the lands of appellants, and to recover damages.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe_ county court of Jefferson county: Geoeg-e Grimm:, Judge. Equitable action for a mandatory injunction compelling defendants to close up a ditch made to drain surface water from their lands whereby it flowed ,by way of adjoining lands to the lands of appellants, and to recover damages. The facts as found by the court are as follows: “1. That the plaintiffs are owners in common of the N. W. y¿ of section 30 and other lands in the town of Cold Spring, and of the E. % of the S. W. %. of the S. E. % of section 24, in the town of Koshkonong, all in said Jefferson…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
The findings are somewhat involved. In the second paragraph it is said, there is a natural reservoir or pond covering five to fifteen acres op respondents’ lands, and in the sixteenth finding it is said, prior to the commencement -of this action the territory formerly covered by water and constituting the bed of the pond had become dry land suitable for •agricultural purposes. From the findings as a whole, however, it is quite clear that this is the situation: There is on respondents’ lands a depression covering several acres and of the depth of about one foot,, toward which, under natural…
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