By: Derek Hawkins//April 23, 2019//
WI Court of Appeals – District II
Case Name: Leith Holdings, LLC, v. Wisconsin Power and Light Company
Case No.: 2017AP1740
Officials: Reilly, P.J., Gundrum and Hagedorn, JJ.
Focus: Inverse Condemnation
Leith Holdings, LLC appeals from a circuit court order granting summary judgment to Wisconsin Power & Light Company (WP&L). Leith claimed that WP&L inversely condemned its property by placing utility infrastructure (electric transformers and power lines) on what Leith claimed were private roads on its property. We agree with the circuit court that WP&L’s utility infrastructure was placed on public roads as shown in an 1894 recorded plat because that plat made a statutory dedication to the public of the roads at issue. We affirm.