Evanich v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.

The following opinion was filed December 3, 1940:

Faerchild, J.

In attempting to cross West National avenue to a safety island at South Thirty-Eighth street, the plaintiff’s deceased was struck by a streetcar and killed. He was intending to become a passenger on the eastbound car. As he left the north curb of West National avenue he signaled to the motorman who was then some two hundred feet away from the place of collision. The evidence is that the car was traveling at a speed which would indicate there was to be no stop at the point where the deceased apparently was desirous of boarding the…