Flamingo v. City of Waukesha

It is well settled that the maintenance of streets and highways in a condition fit for travel is a governmental function. Bruhnke v. La Crosse (1914), 155 Wis. 485, 144 N. W. 1100; Stoehr v. Red Springs (1928), 195 Wis. 399, 216 N. W. 487, 219 N. W. 98; Larsen v. Kewaunee County (1932), 209 Wis. 204, 244 N. W. 578. It is also a governmental function for a city to maintain a dump for the disposal of unwanted material.

“While diversity of judicial views still prevails, late cases generally hold, with some exceptions, that the functions of cleaning of streets, the collection of garbage, and the…