River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-12-23

ages against Pierce county to the County
Board of said County for adjustment, and
alleges the following facts:
Said Anna G. owen Is the owner of
two hundred and eight acre farm in the
town of Trenton, part of which is descri6-
ed as the North One-half of the South east
quarter of Section Thirty four (34l Town
ship twenty-five (25), North of Range
Eighteen QS) West, in said County.
On the north part of said farm the
Hager Hill rises and on the table land be
yond of several thousand acres there col
lectS large amount of surface waite
which from time immemorial has been dis.
charged upon the Owen farm from theS,
table lands through two large ravines
Prior to the act complained Of the surface
water thus discharged on the east side
passed through well defined channel
across the Northeast corner of the Owen
farm through culvert on to the land o.
Dennis Connors on east side of road tbe
ing RAD.
In 1914 said Connors was appointed
pathmaster of that part of said highway
running past the Owen farm and thereaft
err acting under orders and with the ad
vice and consent of the proper officials OF
Piece county. proceeded to close the said
culvert thus stopping the surface water.
That thereafter said Connors constructed
a ditch upon the land of the claimant
along the west side of the highway for
the apparent purpose of carrying away the
surface water stopped by the closing of
said culvert that said ditch could have
q
ner that the surface water would have been
discharged with greatly less damage, but
that it was in fact so constructed that the
land of the plaintiff has been flooded and
watersoaked and that quantities of sand
have been washed theron rendering un-
tillable three acres of claimants said farm,
ana partially destroying crop on five acres
thereof.
That ever since said time claimant has
been deprived of the use of above seven or
eight acres of said land and that it is now
worthless and said five acres exposed 70
foods; that prior to the closing of said
said ditch the tract of seven or eight
acres referred to was highly productive
and valuable; that said land so ruined has
been appraised by three disinterested free
holders of said county as being of the
value of Five Hundred Dollars $500. LOO
that the damage to the 1920 crop was ap-
praised by the same persons as or the
value of Three Hundred Dollars (S300. OOl
as is evidenced by the statement of said
appraisers attached hereto; that the
claimant has suffered damaged crops In
former years since the improper constrrc-
ton of said ditch to the value of at least
Five Hundred Dollars $500. COZ; and
claimant asks to be compensated for this
damage in all, Twelve Hundred Dollars
t$f.-90. s0l
L. s. Doolittle,
Attorney for Claimant.
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
County of Pierce-ss.
Anna G. Owen, being first by me, duly
sworn, says that she has read the state.
ments made in the foregoing claim and
that the same are true.
Anna G.. Owen.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
LIST day of November, A. d. 1920.
Louis S. Doolittle,
(SeaD Notary Public.
Pierce County, Wisconsin
My Commission expires July s, 1923.
We, the undersigned, have carefully eX
amined the damage and loss caused by the
food of water turned on the farm of Mrs
Anna Owen by the change made in th'
construction of the ditch on the State
Highway by the state engineers, and our
estimate is as follows:
Damage to crop for renter,
George Hart, Observation-Disclosures. T2O0.U W
Damage to land for owner, ........ 800 90
John Skidmore
f. A. Way,
Warren Sparks.