Thompson v. City of Eau Claire

On the westerly side of the disposal area there was a burning pit in which limbs, brush, leaves, and paper were burned. This fire was seldom extinguished and ordinarily as new material was added daily it would continue to burn. The garbage-disposal section was operated by the land-fill or sanitary-fill method. Large trenches were dug running north and south and the noncombustible materials were dumped into one end of a trench. This was compacted by running over the same with a tractor, and when a portion of the ditch was filled within a couple of feet of the top, that top portion was covered…