Collins v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. In this case there was a special verdict as follows: “(1) Was the whistle of the engine on the train which struck the plaintiff blown after the train was within such reasonable distance of the bridge where the plaintiff was injured as ought to have warned those at work on or about the bridge of the approach of the train % A. No. “(2) Was the train which struck the plaintiff running at…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. In this case there was a special verdict as follows: “(1) Was the whistle of the engine on the train which struck the plaintiff blown after the train was within such reasonable distance of the bridge where the plaintiff was injured as ought to have warned those at work on or about the bridge of the approach of the train % A. No. “(2) Was the train which struck the plaintiff running at the rate of speed at which trains customarily approached and crossed the bridges on which the plaintiff had been at…
1Opinion of the CourtTimlin, J.
The plaintiff was an employee of the Bates & Rogers Construction Company, which under contract with defendant was engaged in reconstructing bridges upon defend*307ant’s line of railroad. On September 27, 1909, this construction company was thus engaged upon a bridge on the main line of the railroad where it crossed a low, wet' place or slough. The structure, in the testimony sometimes called a bridge and sometimes a trestle, was about eighty feet long and eight to ten feet above the surface of the low land and water at the bottom. The operation of trains on the road continued and a construction…
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