(1973)

DANIEL J. MIRON, District Attorney, Marinette County

You have requested my opinion as to whether a town board in laying out a highway under sec. 80.02 or sec. 80.13, Wis. Stats., may acquire by condemnation county lands entered under sec. 77.13 (1) (1961), Stats. This section provided, prior to its repeal in 1963, that:

"Any county which has title to any lands eligible to registration as forest crop lands shall be deemed an owner as this term is used in this chapter and may register and withdraw such lands under the provisions of this chapter in the same manner and on the same basis as other…