Hadrian v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Transport Co.

The following opinion was filed January 13, 1942:

Fowler, J.

As appears from the foregoing statement, the plaintiff wife recovered judgment upon a verdict of a jury-assessing her damages at $12,000 for a broken leg caused by negligence of the defendant in so operating a two-car streetcar train as to strike her with the outswing of the rear of the train when rounding a turn, and her husband recovered judgment for $2,365 as his damages found to have been so caused. The defendant appeals from the judgment and claims as error, in substance, that (a) as matter of law the defendant was not negligent;…