Carpenter v. Town of Spring Green

The undisputed facts show that the town of Spring Green discontinued a highway upon which, many years before, there had been constructed by the town three iron bridges with plank floors. The bridges spanned depressions which permitted flood waters from the Wisconsin river at high-water stages to escape. The highway was at first a town highway. Later on it became a part of State Trunk Highway No. 11 and still later it was known as United States Highway No. 14. In 1926, United States Highway No. 14 was relocated with the result that so much of that highway as is now involved in this controversy…