Atkinson v. Goodrich Transportation Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. This is an action to recover for the loss of plaintiff Atkinson's house and other property in the city of Green Bay by a fire, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant corporation in. not providing its steamboat with, proper spark-arresters, as required by a city ordinance, and by the negligence and unlawful acts of the defendant’s '• employees in charge of such steamboat, in running it near the shore…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Winnebago County. This is an action to recover for the loss of plaintiff Atkinson's house and other property in the city of Green Bay by a fire, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant corporation in. not providing its steamboat with, proper spark-arresters, as required by a city ordinance, and by the negligence and unlawful acts of the defendant’s '• employees in charge of such steamboat, in running it near the shore while emitting large quantities of sparks which a prevailing high wind carried directly towards a planing-mill and other…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 11, 1887:
Taylor, J.
This case was before this court on a former appeal from a judgment in favor of the respondent, and the judgment was reversed for errors committed on the trial, and a new trial was ordered. See 60 Wis. 141. The nature *8of the action is fully stated in the reported case, and need not be restated here. The case has been re-tried, and it is again brought here by an appeal by the defendant.
The learned counsel for the appellant assigned twelve causes for the reversal of .the judgment. The first error assigned is the refusal of the court to…
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