Court Opinion

ID: 9661382
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:37:36.588071+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:28.044151
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Wilkie, J.
(dissenting). I can see no reason for not giving effect to the rationale of Plesko v. Allied Investment *107Co.1 and Brown v. Milwaukee Terminal R. Co.2 wherein we held that a property owner, who knew or should have known that a decayed tree on his property represented a threat to passersby on the street, maintained a nuisance and was liable for injury caused by such nuisance. A falling decayed tree is as “natural” a phenomenon as a sidewalk raised by tree roots. That the city has a responsibility to maintain the streets does not relieve the property owner of responsibility for maintaining a risk-creating nuisance.

 (1961), 12 Wis. (2d) 168, 107 N. W. (2d) 201.

 (1929), 199 Wis. 575, 224 N. W. 748.