Lawson v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for St. Oroix County. Action to recover damages on account of the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. The substance of the answer, and the principal facts shown by the evidence and found by the''jury in their special verdict, are stated in the opinion. Two men, J. D. Rulien and E. C. Marvin, besides the deceased, rode in a oar with the horses.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for St. Oroix County. Action to recover damages on account of the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. The substance of the answer, and the principal facts shown by the evidence and found by the''jury in their special verdict, are stated in the opinion. Two men, J. D. Rulien and E. C. Marvin, besides the deceased, rode in a oar with the horses. Mr. Fay, who shipped the horses, and Mr. Marvin, were each allowed to testify, against objection, that the latter had a conversation with the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed September 22, 1885:
OetoN, J.
One W. E. Fay, in the night-time of the 12th of December, 1883, shipped on one of the freight cars of the appellant company, at New Bichmond, twelve horses to be carried to Phipps Station, a distance of about 100 miles, *452and employed the deceased to ride in said car to care for said horses on the route. About twunty-five miles from New Richmond, at a station called Clayton, the train in which said car was placed met and collided with another train standing there at the time, and thereby the car in which the horses and the deceased…
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