Patry v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Ohvppewa County. This action was commenced in September, 1888, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the negligence of the agents and employees of the defendant company operating a train of cars upon its railroad.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Ohvppewa County. This action was commenced in September, 1888, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the negligence of the agents and employees of the defendant company operating a train of cars upon its railroad. At the time of the alleged injury (November 14,1885) the plaintiff resided eight miles from Boyd, a station on the Wisconsin Central Railroad, understood to be about eighteen miles east or northeast of Chippewa Falls. . She was then thirty-three years old, was a healthy woman, and had a…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
I. The rulings of the circuit court denying the respective motions of the defendant for a nonsuit, that the court direct a verdict for the defendant, and for a new trial, raise the question whether the testimony was sufficient to authorize the court to submit to the jury the question of defendant’s liability in the action. The defendant is thus liable if the negligence or wrongful acts of its conductor or brakeman on the train from which plaintiff was put off at Badger Mills was the proximate cause of the injuries of *224which she complains, unless she also was guilty of negligence which…
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