Herlitzke v. La Crosse Inter-Urban Telephone Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: Geoegb G-bimm, Judge. Action for personal injuries. On June 3, 1908, the plaintiff was being driven over one of the public highways of La Orosse county, Wisconsin, known as the old Mindoro road, when the top of her buggy was caught by a telephone wire of the defendant company, which hung loosely across said highway, causing the horses to become frightened and run away, and injuring the plaintiff.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: Geoegb G-bimm, Judge. Action for personal injuries. On June 3, 1908, the plaintiff was being driven over one of the public highways of La Orosse county, Wisconsin, known as the old Mindoro road, when the top of her buggy was caught by a telephone wire of the defendant company, which hung loosely across said highway, causing the horses to become frightened and run away, and injuring the plaintiff. The jury by special verdict found (1) that the low position of the telephone wire across the highway at the time and place of the…
1Opinion of the CourtViitje, J.
The defendant earnestly contends that there is no evidence to sustain the finding of the jury that the low position of the telephone wire across the highway was due to any want of ordinary care on its part. Some distance south of the place of the accident the highway ran in a northerly direction with the telephone line on its west side. It then turned nearly west, making almost a right angle, the telephone post at which point will hereafter be designated as A, and ran in a westerly direction for about 600 feet, with the telephone line on the south side; then again in a northerly direction,…
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