Ball v. City of Madison

In our opinion this case is largely ruled by Cegelski v. Green Bay (1939), 231 Wis. 89, 93, 285 N. W. 343, where this court held:

“. . . the instant [toboggan] slide was in no sense a building or a structure. The slide followed the natural slope of the hill. The only allegation of the complaint having any relation to anything other than mere smoothing and keeping smooth and covered with ice or snow the surface of the ground and banking the sides of the course with snow is that the city ‘erected on said premises a wooden railing to guide the direction of the skis or toboggans’ using the slide.…