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TOWN OF FIFIELD v. STATE FARM INS. CO.

No. 82-1444.

114 Wis.2d 518 (1983)

TOWN OF FIFIELD, a municipal and political corporation of Price County, Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign insurance corporation; Elmer V. Halverson; and Gary V. Halverson, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided August 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants the cause was submitted on the briefs of Terwilliger, Wakeen, Piehler, Conway & Klingberg, S.C., of Wausau.

For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of DeBardeleben & Snyder of Park Falls.

Before Foley, P.J., Dean and Cane, JJ.

FOLEY, P.J.

The defendants appeal a judgment awarding the Town of Fifield $94,000 for the damages it sustained when Gary Halverson drove his forty-three-ton pulpwood truck onto a town bridge with a posted weight capacity of four tons. Halverson admitted liability for destroying the bridge, and the jury awarded the town $34,000 for its loss of the bridge and $13,000 for consequential damages. The trial court doubled these damages pursuant to sec. 86.14 (2), Stats....

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