Bowen v. Town of Osceola

We will first treat the question of the negligence of the defendant town. For years a large number of automobiles had been operated over this highway by persons visiting in that locality, by the urban population living in the vicinity thereof, and by tourists traveling to and from the summer resorts located upon inland lakes in the proximity of the highway. All of these facts, together with the standard of road construction and the topography of the locality, must be taken into consideration in deter*16mining whether a given condition renders a highway defective. Branegan v. Verona, 170 Wis.…