First Wisconsin Trust Co. v. Schmidt
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. T. Fairchild, Circuit Judge. Personal injury. This action is brought by the executor of the estate of Alvina Schilke, widow, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her and for her death resulting therefrom.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. T. Fairchild, Circuit Judge. Personal injury. This action is brought by the executor of the estate of Alvina Schilke, widow, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her and for her death resulting therefrom. The jury found, first, that defendant’s automobile was, at and immediately prior to the accident, being run at a greater rate of speed than was reasonable and proper, having regard to the width, traffic upon, and use of Twelfth street in the vicinity of the accident; second, that such rate of speed was the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 11, 1921:
RoseNberry, J.
Twelfth street in the city of Milwaukee runs north and south and intersects Prairie, and Chestnut streets running east and west at ^ right angles, Chestnut street being- one block north of Prairie street. Between 7:30 and 8 o’clock on the evening of December 7, 1917, the defendant was driving1 his automobile south on Twelfth street. It was a clear moonlight night. The headlights on the defendant’s automobile were burning. On Twelfth street there are two car lines, the north-bound cars running upon the easterly tracks and the…
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