Susenguth v. Town of Rantoul
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Calumet County. Action for injuries received by plaintiff November 27, 1875, while traveling along a highway in the defendant town, and alleged to have been caused by the defective condition of the highway.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Calumet County. Action for injuries received by plaintiff November 27, 1875, while traveling along a highway in the defendant town, and alleged to have been caused by the defective condition of the highway. After the usual allegations to show defendant’s liability for the condition of the highway, the nature of the defect, and the circumstances of the accident, the complaint alleges that plaintiff was thereby greatly bruised and injured, rendered sick, lame and disabled, and wholly unfit to move or go about and attend to his business for more than seven…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The defendant demurred separately to the second and third causes of action set forth in the complaint, on the ground that each is insufficient in law. In the second count, or paragraph, the plaintiff claims damages which he alleges he has sustained in consequence of being unable personally to attend to and operate his factory for the preparation of soda water, spruce and root beer, and bottled cider, articles which he was largely engaged in manufacturing when he received the injury in the first count mentioned; and also for damages for loss of trade sustained by him by reason of not being…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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