823.01 Jurisdiction over nuisances. Any person, county, city, village or town may maintain an action to recover damages or to abate a public nuisance from which injuries peculiar to the complainant are suffered, so far as necessary to protect the complainant's rights and to obtain an injunction to prevent the same.
History: 1973 c. 189; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 762 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 823.01.
A town's recovery under nuisance statutes does not require injury to the town's own property. Town of East Troy v. Soo Line Railroad Co. 653 F.2d 1123 (1980).
Navigating the “Impenetrable Jungle": Statutory Limits on Wisconsin Public Nuisance Actions. Massaro. 90 MLR 95 (2006).