Maas v. Schwaab

Action in equity by landowners to enjoin threatened removal by the town board of a gate erected by one of the plaintiff landowners in November, 1941, across the opening into a street dedicated by a recorded plat of Venice Park, bordering Nemahbin lake in Waukesha county. The plaintiffs claim the street is a private road for the use only of the owners of the abutting land. The board claims that the plat dedicates the street to the use of the public as a* public highway.

The main features of the plat are that the land owned by the plaintiffs consists of block A not divided into lots lying-east…