Nick v. State Highway Commission

In Nick v. State Highway Comm. (1961), 13 Wis. (2d) 511, 109 N. W. (2d) 71, this court held that an impairment of the use of property by the exercise of the police power, where the property itself is not taken by the state, does not entitle the owner of such property to compensation. It was noted that Mrs. Nick still had access to Highway 30 via the use of Calhoun road.

The court relied on the reasoning of Carazalla v. State (1955), 269 Wis. 593, 608b, 70 N. W. (2d) 208, 71 N. W. (2d) 276, which was also a controlled-access highway case. In Carazalla, this court approved the conclusion of text…