Roeser v. Sauk County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Sauk county: E. Ray SteveNS, Circuit Judge. Tbis 'is an action by tbe plaintiff, Casper Boeser, to recover damages for alleged personal injuries wbicb be claims were caused by a defective highway of the county of Sauh. Tbe plaintiff presented a claim for damages to tbe county board.
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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Sauk county: E. Ray SteveNS, Circuit Judge. Tbis 'is an action by tbe plaintiff, Casper Boeser, to recover damages for alleged personal injuries wbicb be claims were caused by a defective highway of the county of Sauh. Tbe plaintiff presented a claim for damages to tbe county board. His complaint alleges that be, Casper Boeser, suffered injury and great damage to bis person on August 21, 1916, by reason of tbe insufficiency and want of repair of a public highway in tbe town of Prairie du Sac; that such injury occurred at a place near tbe center of…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecKKR, J.
The complaint must be liberally construed. The allegation that the culvert was so defectively constructed as to render the highway unsafe for travel by the smallness of the culvert, the erection of the twelve-inch cement curbing at the ends, and by allowing the same to be wholly obscured by weeds as to be invisible to travelers using the traveled track or when the traveler was obliged to drive outside the traveled track to permit other vehicles to pass him near or on the culvert, is sufficient to allow the plaintiff to show that the highway was insufficient and not reasonably safe for public…
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