Adams v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Grant county: Geo. Clementson, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment of $800 damages, besides costs, recovered by the plaintiff against the defendant for an injury sustained by him at the depot of the defendant at Platteville.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Grant county: Geo. Clementson, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment of $800 damages, besides costs, recovered by the plaintiff against the defendant for an injury sustained by him at the depot of the defendant at Platteville. While waiting for the arrival of the evening passenger train upon which he intended to take passage, and after having purchased his ticket, he had been to the outbuilding and was returning, with an employee of the defendant, over a board walk and up stairs or steps to the depot platform, when, as it is alleged,…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNey, J.
The evidence on the part of the plaintiff, if believed by the jury, is clearly sufficient to sustain the verdict. It is not disputed but that the plaintiff was injured, *647on returning from the outhouse, by Ms foot and leg going down in a hole or space between the walk and the first of the steps leading from the walk to the depot platform. He revisited the place of the accident after his injury and before the steps and platform had been rebuilt, and his testimony was to the effect that it was dark at the time, and the space or hole between the walk and the steps was, he thought, ten inches, and…
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