Gaethke v. Town Board

This is an appeal from a judgment entered October 5, 1976, upholding the action of the respondent Town Board extending a town road over land belonging to Edmund and Lorena Gaethke, his wife, appellants, to serve as access to the property of another.

The question on appeal is, did the Town Board of the Town of Clay Banks, Door County, abuse its discretion by laying out a public highway over the private lands of the Gaethkes for the purpose of providing Gary Dantoin, owner of a landlocked parcel access to a public highway under sec. 80.13 Stats. (1973) ?

Mr. Gary Dantoin purchased a 450 foot by…