Hoffman v. Eastern Wisconsin Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
’Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Foud du Lac county: Chestee A. Fowlee, Circuit Judge. On July 18, 1904, plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s electric cars, when a collision with another car took place, and she was thrown against one of the seats and into the aisle and received serious injuries, rendering her substantially unconscious. She was treated for some three days by physicians paid by the defendant.
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’Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Foud du Lac county: Chestee A. Fowlee, Circuit Judge. On July 18, 1904, plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s electric cars, when a collision with another car took place, and she was thrown against one of the seats and into the aisle and received serious injuries, rendering her substantially unconscious. She was treated for some three days by physicians paid by the defendant. The external indications of the injury were a slight scalp- wound and a severe bruise along the front of the thigh and extending to or above the thigh unto…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The trial court evidently felt constrained in his construction of the release in this case by what he termed a strict rule of law applicable thereto, to the effect that the general words of the release, acknowledging full payment and satisfaction of all claims by reason of the injuries received on defendant’s car on the date named, were limited by the specification of those injuries elsewhere in the writing, and counsel now contend that there is such a strict rule of law which must constrain us, to the effect that wherever words of particular description are contained in any contract, and…
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