Carpenter v. Town of Rolling
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Langlade county: JonAGoodlaND, Circuit Judge. This is an action for damages on account of the death of Jacob Hetzel, the plaintiff’s intestate, which 'death is alleged to have resulted by reason of a defect in the highway in the defendant town.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Langlade county: JonAGoodlaND, Circuit Judge. This is an action for damages on account of the death of Jacob Hetzel, the plaintiff’s intestate, which 'death is alleged to have resulted by reason of a defect in the highway in the defendant town. The evidence showed that Jacob Hetzel at the time of his death was a farmer thirty-eight-years of age, living in the town of Aniwa, Shawano county, about two and. one-half miles from the village of Aniwa, and several miles south of the city of Antigo, in Langlade county. He was a married man, having a…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNSlow, J.
A number of assignments of error were made by appellant which are not considered well taken, and these will be first considered.
1. It is said that the loous in quo was not shown to be a highway. ' The road in question wás shown to have been first opened by private parties, but it was also shown that it had been in existence and generally used by the public for twelve or thirteen years, and, further, that several taxpayers had been permitted by the overseer of highways to work out their road taxes at various times upon it. We do not think, however, that the question was an open one, under the…
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