Legal Opinion

Ellis v. Milwaukee City Railway Co.

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided November 3, 1886PublishedCited by 1 opinion

APPEAL from tbe County Court of Milwaul&ee County. Tbe facts are stated in tbe opinion. Tbe defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff.

1Opinion of the CourtORton, J.

Tbe plaintiff and respondent on this appeal, in June, 1885, entered one of tbe cars of tbe defendant company at tbe corner of Fourth avenue and Mitchell street, in tbe south part of tbe city of Milwaukee, for tbe purpose of going to the base-ball ground at tbe corner of Twelfth and "Wright streets, in the north part of said city, to which point one of tbe cars of said company ran on one line of its road. He was informed by tbe conductor, when be *136offered to pay bis fare of five cents, that the car he was .on did not run to that point, and that to go there he would have to take another car, but…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Attorney General v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
  2. Bradshaw v. South Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
  3. Yorton v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
  4. Wakefield v. South Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Campbell v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1919

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