Klatt v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. Action to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff’s person, suffered on the night of the 6th of October, 1878, and caused by his being thrown from a vehicle, while driving a liorsé attached thereto, along a street of the defendant city.
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APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. Action to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff’s person, suffered on the night of the 6th of October, 1878, and caused by his being thrown from a vehicle, while driving a liorsé attached thereto, along a street of the defendant city. The ground of liability alleged is, that the city, while engaged in paving said street with wooden blocks, was negligent in causing large quantities of said blocks to he deposited and left in heaps upon the surface of the street, and also in omitting to place barriers and warning lights at that part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtOrton, J.
The accident which caused the injury complained of is alleged to have happened by reason of the city not keeping barriers and lights in the street where it occurred (which was then being paved and thereby rendered unsafe for travel), which would have prevented it. The duty of the city to protect the traveling public from injury liable to happen in consequence of street improvements of this character is the vital principle of this case; and, before applying it to the facts and findings, it is necessary to determine the nature of this duty of the city, and the extent and measure of the responsi*201b…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Aylesworth v. Chicago, R. I. & P. R. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1870
- Ward v. Town of JeffersonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1869
- City of Milwaukee v. DavisWisconsin Supreme Court · 1858
- Koester v. City of OttumwaSupreme Court of Iowa · 1871
- Hammond v. Town of MukwaWisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
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