Town of Randall v. Rovelstad
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Kenosha county: FRANK M. Fish, Circuit Judge. It appeared upon the trial that from an early day — before the memory of any of the witnesses, which ran back as far as 1843 — a traveled road existed, known as “ the Ke-nosha and Lake Geneva road,” also as the “ Bullin’s Bridge and Lake Geneva road,” coming two or three miles from the eastward, and crossing a creek át the northeast side' of Power’s Lake, in Kenosha county, running…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Kenosha county: FRANK M. Fish, Circuit Judge. It appeared upon the trial that from an early day — before the memory of any of the witnesses, which ran back as far as 1843 — a traveled road existed, known as “ the Ke-nosha and Lake Geneva road,” also as the “ Bullin’s Bridge and Lake Geneva road,” coming two or three miles from the eastward, and crossing a creek át the northeast side' of Power’s Lake, in Kenosha county, running thence northwesterly to a point in the county line, being the west line of section 7, township 1 N, range 19 E., at a…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The existence and limits of the highway as adjudged to be obstructed depend upon finding 2, to the effect “ that for more than forty years last past there has been, and now is, a public highway running, , . . which said highway was at some time more than forty years ago dedicated and thrown open to the public by the owners of the adjacent property upon both sides thereof, and said *420highway has been accepted by the public, and bas been duly worked by the proper public authorities, and during all the time- aforesaid has been continuously and extensively used and traveled by the residents of said…
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