Kraus v. Mueller

12 Wis. 2d 430
CourtWisconsin Supreme Court
DecidedFebruary 7, 1961
StatusPublished
Cited by5 cases

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Kraus v. Mueller, 12 Wis. 2d 430 (Wis. 1961).

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CuRRiE, J.

The premises, which are the subject of the instant controversy, lie within the eastern portion of the recorded plat of the First Addition to Belvidere Park. Such First Addition to Belvidere Park extends for a distance of approximately one and a quarter miles in an easterly and westerly direction along the north shore of Long lake. At the time of platting in 1907 it was originally surveyed by one Harmon, now deceased.

At the trial of the instant action, two surveyors, Andrews and Ploar, were called as witnesses and each testified as to the survey of the disputed area made by him, and plats showing the results of these two surveys were received in evidence. The plaintiffs rely on the survey made by Andrews while the defendant contends that Hoar’s survey is the correct one. There is printed herewith a composite plat of both surveys that was included in the appellant-defendant’s brief, which this court found very helpful in resolving the present appeal. In those respects in which the two surveys diverge from each other, the lot boundaries of the Hoar survey are shown in solid lines while those of the Andrews survey are shown in broken lines. The lower set of lot numbers are those of the Hoar survey while the upper row of lot numbers are those of the Andrews survey. It will be noted that two lot corner stakes are labeled “original stakes.” The plaintiffs do not concede that such two stakes were placed in such locations by Harmon, who originally surveyed the plat in 1907, and the trial court found that the evidence was insufficient to establish them as such.

The plaintiffs are the record owners of lot 25 of block 4, and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of block 5, together with the parcel marked “Road” lying between lot 25 and lot 1, having purchased the same in 1956. The defendant is the record owner of lots 22, 23, and 24 of block 4, she having acquired such [434]*434title in 1953. Since 1953 the defendant has been in possession of such lots 22, 23, and 24, according to the Hoar survey, and has been operating a summer resort thereon.

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