Groesbeck v. Chicago, MilwauKee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for ‘Walworth county: EeaNK M. Eish, Circuit Judge. On the afternoon of the 23d day of December, 1893, at a few minutes after 6 o’clock, Garrett J. Groesbeck, accompanied by his little son, who was seven years of age, in a-one-horse open buggy, were driving southward upon one’ of the principal thoroughfares of Walworth county, called the “ Geneva Eoad,” and while crossing the track of the defendant company nearly at right angles…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for ‘Walworth county: EeaNK M. Eish, Circuit Judge. On the afternoon of the 23d day of December, 1893, at a few minutes after 6 o’clock, Garrett J. Groesbeck, accompanied by his little son, who was seven years of age, in a-one-horse open buggy, were driving southward upon one’ of the principal thoroughfares of Walworth county, called the “ Geneva Eoad,” and while crossing the track of the defendant company nearly at right angles the buggy was-struck by the engine of an express train on the defendant’s road, and both occupants were instantly killed,…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNslow, J.
It will be seen from the foregoing statement that the present case is quite similar in its facts to the case of Haetsch v. C. & N. W. R. Co. 87 Wis. 304. In both cases there was sufficient evidence to establish negligence on the part of the defendant. In both cases the deceased was seated *509in. a wagon, approaching a railroad crossing with which he was familiar, in the night, a few minutes after a train was •due, and was run down by an engine bearing a burning headlight which could be seen by the deceased at some distance from the crossing, had he looked; and in both cases no one lived to tell…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Piper v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
- Haetsch v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1894
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