White v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: Maetiw L. Lueck, Circuit Judge. Action for damages claimed to have been caused to the wife of plaintiff’s intestate by the alleged negligent kiTMng of her husband while crossing defendant’s track.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-kesha county: Maetiw L. Lueck, Circuit Judge. Action for damages claimed to have been caused to the wife of plaintiff’s intestate by the alleged negligent kiTMng of her husband while crossing defendant’s track. April 22, 1909, the deceased, William G. Barnstable, a married man fifty years of age, at Lake Villa, state of Illinois, in company with his wife, about 7:30 p. m. started to cross defendant’s railway track at the intersection with a village street known as Cedar avenue. They had come from home, some little distance northeast of the…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
The claimed cause of action arose in the state of Illinois and so is governed by Illinois law. However, in the state of the record such law — the same not having been formally brought to the attention of the trial court by pleading and evidence — must be presumed to be like that of this state. MacCarthy v. Whitcomb, 110 Wis. 113, 85 N. W. 707; Edleman v. Edleman, 125 Wis. 270, 104 N. W. 56. But, we may say in passing, if the Illinois law for the case did not rest in presumption, it would be found quite as strict as that here as regards the quantum of care required of a person in attempting to…
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- Railroad Company v. HoustonSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
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- White v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1899
- Keeley v. Great Northern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
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