Byline: Derek Hawkins
WI Court of Appeals District IV
Case Name: Island Camping, Inc., v. Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Case No.: 2019AP2284
Officials: FITZPATRICK, P.J.
Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence
For over thirty years, Island Camping, Inc. has operated a commercial campground on an approximately twenty-acre narrow strip of land along the Mississippi River. A bridge spanning the river between Minnesota and Wisconsin has stood over a slice of the Island Camping property the entire time it has operated the campground. The Department of Transportation ("DOT"), through eminent domain procedures, permanently took a .64-acre portion of the Island Camping...
