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Property Keyed to Merrill
Schwab v. Timmons
Citation:
589 N.W.2d 1Facts
The petitioners and respondents all own property that is located on Green Bay in the Village of Ephraim in Door County. The petitioners’ parcels are bordered by water on the east and the bluff on the west. Because their properties are between the lake and the bluff, petitioners claim their only access if over the land to the south, owned by the respondents, for which they do not have a right-of-way. In 1988, the petitioners petitioned the Village of Ephraim, pursuant to the state statute, to extend a public road to the private road beginning at the Hobler property northward over all of the respondents’ properties to McCormick’s property. The Village of Ephraim board, however, declined the request finding that extending the road was not in the public’s interest.
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