Boucher v. Wisconsin Central Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rond du Lac county: Ci-iesteb A. Eowleb, Circuit Judge. At North Eond du Lac the defendant has an arrangement for handling cinders. The arrangement is the only one of its kind operated by the defendant. Under one of the defendant’s tracks is what is known as the “cinder pit.” On the bottom of the cinder pit, which lies nine or ten feet below the track, are two sets of parallel tracks running east and west.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rond du Lac county: Ci-iesteb A. Eowleb, Circuit Judge. At North Eond du Lac the defendant has an arrangement for handling cinders. The arrangement is the only one of its kind operated by the defendant. Under one of the defendant’s tracks is what is known as the “cinder pit.” On the bottom of the cinder pit, which lies nine or ten feet below the track, are two sets of parallel tracks running east and west. At the north and south of the tracks in the pit are abutments. The east end of the pit is closed. The pit is reached by a curved and inclined…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 7, 1909:
Siebecker, J.
The appellant assails the court’s decision holding that the evidence in the case required submission of the issues whether the engineer was negligent in conducting the defendant’s business at the time Boucher was' injured; if so negligent, whether it was the proximate cause of the injury, and whether such negligence was a greater or less contributing cause in producing Boucher’s death than his contributory negligence. The facts of the case controlling these questions are within a narrow compass, and are so interrelated that a…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Kiley v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
- Ryan v. Oshkosh Gas Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
- Robinson v. WestoverMichigan Supreme Court · 1909
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