Heddles v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Booh County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This action is to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while traveling along on Wall street, in Janesville, where the same is crossed by the defendant’s railway tracks, on the afternoon of November 18, 1887, by being negligently and carelessly run over by a locomotive engine of the defendant, by reason of which he claimed $50,000 damages.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Booh County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This action is to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while traveling along on Wall street, in Janesville, where the same is crossed by the defendant’s railway tracks, on the afternoon of November 18, 1887, by being negligently and carelessly run over by a locomotive engine of the defendant, by reason of which he claimed $50,000 damages. The negligence and carelessness thus alleged related to the operating the engine, its unlawful rate of speed, the failure to…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
Pleasant street in Janesville runs southwesterly from what is known as the “ lower bridge,” for three blocks, and then turns and runs directly west across the tracks of the defendant and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and then continues in the same direction to the city limits. The place of such crossing-is at the junction of Pleasant and Madison streets, the latter of which runs directly north and south. The defendant’s railway track at that point runs about thirty-five degrees east of north, and continues in that direction until it crosses the river; and for that distance the…
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