840.11.Highways; parks; record of order.

Section 840.11 extends the lis pendens idea from private litigation to public-place proceedings. Anyone applying to a court, county board, common council, or village or town board to lay out, widen, vacate, or extend a street, alley, water channel, park, highway, or other public place must, at or before filing the application with the proper officer, present a lis pendens for recording under section 840.10 in each county where the affected land lies. That lis pendens must include the applicant’s name, a brief statement of the object of the application, and a map and description of the affected land.

The eventual order does not bind later buyers automatically. No final order, judgment, decree, resolution, or order taking or affecting the land based on the application gives notice to a subsequent purchaser or encumbrancer unless a certified copy, containing a legal description as defined in section 706.01(7r) and accompanied by a map showing the land’s location, is recorded in the register of deeds office of the county where the land sits.