Stoecker v. City of Cedarburg
This text of 152 N.W. 445 (Stoecker v. City of Cedarburg) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Wisconsin Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
We have examined the record and find the evidence amply sustains the findings of fact of the trial court. The trial court properly held that the acts of the city in constructing the drain and improving the highway adjacent to plaintiff’s premises did not increase the flow of the surface water onto the plaintiff’s land and did not create a nuisance.
The city had the right to improve the “Plank Road” and the streets in the city and to change the natural course of the surface water by such improvement within the limits of the highways, even though such improvement changed the flow of such water onto adjoining lands. Champion v. Crandon, 84 Wis. 405, 54 N. W. 775; Merkel v. Germantown, 120 Wis. 494, 98 N. W. 210.
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.
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152 N.W. 445, 161 Wis. 34, 1915 Wisc. LEXIS 164, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/stoecker-v-city-of-cedarburg-wis-1915.