Larsen v. Kewaunee County

The sole question on this appeal is whether or not the plaintiff’s amended complaint states facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against Kewaunee county.

Kewaunee county contends that the complaint does not state a cause of action against it for the reason that liability for the insufficiency or want of repairs of a highway must be based upon sec. 81.15, Stats., and that under the facts alleged, and the statutory law of this state, it was not “by law bound to keep in repair” state highway 17 at the time of the accident.

In the view we take of this controversy a very narrow question…