Atkinson v. Goodrich Transportation Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. The defendant in this case appealed from a judgment, entered'upon a special verdict, in favor of the plaintiffs.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. The defendant in this case appealed from a judgment, entered'upon a special verdict, in favor of the plaintiffs. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Taylor as a part of the opinion: Action to recover the value of certain personal property, and of a dwelling-house situate in the city of Green Bay, which were destroyed by fire September 20, 1880. The Phcenix Insurance Company is a party plaintiff because i1^ had insured the dwelling-house, and paid the insurance thereon, and in consideration of such payment Atldnson…
1Opinion of the Court
Tatloe,'J..
The learned counsel for the defendant has presented a very forcible argument, in which he endeavors to distinguish this case from the case of Kellogg v. C. & N. W. Py Co., 26 Wis., 223, and Brown v. C., M. & St. P. R’y Co., 54 Wis., 342, and presses upon this court the propriety of limiting the liability of a person who negligently sets fire to . a building, either to the value of the building first fired, or at most not to extend the liability beyond such other buildings as were necessarily destroyed by the mere fire of the conflagration of the first; and he insists that this…
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