Huber v. La Crosse City Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: O. B. Wyman, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of alleged negligence of the defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: O. B. Wyman, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of alleged negligence of the defendant. The complaint charges that at the time of the injury the plaintiff was an employee of the Brush Electric Light Company, which maintained, at the northwest corner of the intersection of Main and Eourth streets in La Crosse, a wooden pole, to support one end of a wire stretching across the intersection of the streets from northwest to southeast, from the center of which an electric street lamp was…
1Opinion of the CourtPutney, J.
1. The plaintiff was engaged as a servant of the light company, and using its poles and appliances under the direction of its superintendent, performing an engagement that company had entered into with the defendant *645company to change the location and method of hanging the electric street lamps so that their use and management would not interfere with or embarrass the use and operation of the defendant’s electric railway, for a consideration to be paid by the defendant. Under the circumstances, the defendant was bound to the exercise of reasonable care and caution in the management and control…
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