Bassett v. Milwaukee Northern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Walter Schinz, Circuit Judge. . This action was brought to recover damages sustained by plaintiff on April 6, 1916, while riding on one of defendant’s interurban cars, which collided with another car at Thiens-ville, Wisconsin. Plaintiff recovered and defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed March 4, 1919:
Owen, J.
The defendant operates an electric interurban railway between Milwaukee and Sheboygan, and one of the stations on its line is Port Washington. Between Milwau*154kee and Port Washington is a station known as Thiensville. At the time of the accident plaintiff was attending a school of engineering at Milwaukee. The school included in its course of study an annual trip to Port Washington for the purpose of inspecting power plants at that city. The school chartered a car of the defendant on April 6, 1916, to take the students upon this annual trip.…
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