Town of Waupun v. Town of Chester
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dodge County. Action to recover two fifths of the expense of repairing a bridge situated on the line of a highway between the plaintiff and defendant towns. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. At the close of the plaintiff’s testimony a motion for a nonsuit was granted, and from the judgment entered accordingly the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtOeton, J.
In October, 1859, the town of Waupun, in the county of Fond du Lac, and the town of Chester, in the county of Dodge, by the joint action of their boards of supervisors, attempted to lay out what was called in the petitions and orders a “ joint highway ” on or near the line *402between said towns. To that end their proceedings seem to have been substantially in compliance with the statute relating to the laying out of town line highways, and no particular objection is made thereto, except as to the name given to it in the records; but this highway became long since a legal highway by user and the…
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