Wisconsin Statute 893.29 states as follows:
893.29(1)
(1) No title to or interest in real property belonging to the state or a city, village, town, county, school district, sewerage commission, sewerage district or any other unit of government within this state may be obtained by adverse possession, prescription or user under s. 893.25, 893.26, 893.27 or 893.28 unless the adverse possession, prescription or user continues uninterruptedly for more than 20 years and is based upon a continuously maintained fence line which has been mutually agreed upon by the current landowners.
At the time the fence was built, the statute read 40 years, but even with that I far exceeded that limitation.
The City has continually taken the position that a right of way is, and always will be, theirs.

