Bear v. Kenosha County

The defendant contends the judgment is not supported by the evidence mainly because all three of the plaintiffs’ experts erroneously assumed that before the taking the plaintiffs had free and uncontrolled access to Highway 50 and, therefore, their opinions of the value should be disregarded. If no right of access existed, the opinion of value based upon such assumption might be disregarded under the rule of Pressed Steel Tank Co. v. Industrial Comm. (1949), 255 Wis. 333, 38 N. W. (2d) 354, and Branch v. Oconto County (1961), 13 Wis. (2d) 595, 109 N. W. (2d) 105. However, the record does not…