Wood v. General Railway Signal Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Juneau county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for personal'injuries sustained as a result of a collision between a gasoline motor car and the rear end of a passenger train.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Juneau county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for personal'injuries sustained as a result of a collision between a gasoline motor car and the rear end of a passenger train. On September 4, 1912, plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant company, and in the performance of his duties was required to travel from place to place over the tracks of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company on a motor car owned by the defendant. At the time of the accident plaintiff with one Castle, another employee of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed Mar'ch 2, 1915:
Barnes, J.
If the safe-place rule prescribed by sub. (11) of sec. 2394 — 41 and in sec. 2894 — 48, Stats., has reference to the physical situation, as is held in Rosholt v. Worden-Allen Co. 155 Wis. 168, 174, 144 N. W. 650, then we are unable to find any evidence which would justify the submission of the first question in the special verdict to the jury, or that would warrant the jury in answering it in the affirmative. The defendant had nothing to do with the operation of the train or the patroling of the track or the tunnel, and not a single…
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- Young v. LynchWisconsin Supreme Court · 1886
- Downer v. TubbsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1913
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- Barney v. City of HartfordWisconsin Supreme Court · 1888
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