DECOSTER v. WAUSHARA COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPT.

No. 18-2387.

908 F.3d 1093 (2018)

Ronald DECOSTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WAUSHARA COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT and Waushara County, Wisconsin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond M. Dall'Osto , Attorney, GIMBEL, REILLY, GUERIN & BROWN LLP, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John M. Bruce , Attorney, SCHOBER SCHOBER & MITCHELL, S.C., New Berlin, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Easterbrook and Kanne, Circuit Judges.


When Waushara County set out to improve a rural highway, a dispute erupted about who owned a tract of land on which Ronald DeCoster had erected a fence. The County maintained that it owned the land or at least had a transportation easement that required the fence's removal; DeCoster insisted that the land was his and...

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