METROPOLITAN SEW. DIST. v. CHGO. & N. W. RY. CO.

No. 75-236.

78 Wis.2d 119 (1977)

254 N.W.2d 190

METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT OF COUNTY OF MILWAUKEE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 1, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there were briefs by Ewald L. Moerke, Jr., and Robert Arthur Melin and Schroeder, Gedlen, Riester & Moerke, and oral argument by Mr. Melin, all of Milwaukee.

For the respondent there was a brief by Roger S. Bessey, Willard P. Techmeier and Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, S. C., and oral argument by Mr. Techmeier, all of Milwaukee.


BEILFUSS, C. J.

The broad issue is who is liable for the costs of construction of the new railroad bridge over the relocated stream bed of the Kinnickinnic River when the relocation was occasioned by the Sewerage Commission.1

This issue, in the main, is controlled by our opinion in Metropolitan Sewerage District v. Chicago M. St. P. & P. R., 69 Wis.2d 387...

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