Kadolph v. Town of Herman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dodge county: MaktiN L. Luece, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries. The automobile in which plaintiff with five others was driving westerly on the public highway in the defendant town in the forenoon of September 28, 1913, turned to the $outh away from the traveled track in order to pass a horse and buggy going in the same direction.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dodge county: MaktiN L. Luece, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries. The automobile in which plaintiff with five others was driving westerly on the public highway in the defendant town in the forenoon of September 28, 1913, turned to the $outh away from the traveled track in order to pass a horse and buggy going in the same direction. After passing, the automobile turned in again, and just before regaining the traveled track its left hind wheel struck a stone about twenty-one inches long which projected nine to twelve…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweileR, J.
In substance appellant’s contentions are these: (1) A motion for .a nonsuit should have been granted; (2) that questions should have been submitted to the jury in addition to the fourth, in order to have them find whether or not the automobile was exceeding a speed of ten miles an hour in passing the horse and buggy, or whether in so passing the plaintiff was within three feet of the other vehicle, and in connection therewith, if such questions had been answered in the affirmative, whether such excessive rate of speed contributed proximately to the injury; (3) that the verdict was contrary to…
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