Banderob v. Wisconsin Central Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tire circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. Bubeell, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered upon special verdict for $4,750 damages in an action to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of tire circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. Bubeell, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment rendered upon special verdict for $4,750 damages in an action to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. The special verdict'found: (1) The plaintiff sustained the injuries complained of upon defendant’s depot grounds by reason of being tripped by ■wires located and maintained by the defendant between the depot platform and the lawn to the north at the time and place alleged in the complaint. (2) The…
1Opinion of the CourtTimliN, J.
Although there is little conflict of fact in this case, the questions of law are very close. The principal contention of the appellant is that the plaintiff was a trespasser upon the grounds of the defendant at the time she received the injury by tripping against and falling over the wire stretched by defendant from the telegraph pole eastwardly at right angles to the length of the brick platform where the twelve-foo-t width of the latter terminated and between the grass plat and the north edge of the eight-foot eastward extension or expansion of the brick platform. That in consequence the…
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