Schillinger v. Town of Verona
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dame County. This action is to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while attempting to drive over a bridge across Sugar river in the defendant town, July 20, 1890. The complaint is in the ordinary -form, and among other things alleges, in effect, that at the time there was a hole in the bridge, constituting an insufficiency or want of repair; that the embankment constituting the approach to the north end of the…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dame County. This action is to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while attempting to drive over a bridge across Sugar river in the defendant town, July 20, 1890. The complaint is in the ordinary -form, and among other things alleges, in effect, that at the time there was a hole in the bridge, constituting an insufficiency or want of repair; that the embankment constituting the approach to the north end of the bridge was too narrow, insufficient, and without railings or guards; and that plaintiff’s team became frightened at the…
1Opinion of the CourtOassodat, J.
The highway at the place in question ran north and south across the Sugar river. The bridge over the river was eighty-six feet long, sixteen feet wide, and nine and one-half feet above the water. The planks were three inches thick and sixteen feet long, and the bridge was fourteen and one-half feet wide between the railings. The hole mentioned in the foregoing statement appears.to have been formed by a large knot in the north edge of the thirty-third plank from the north end of the bridge having become loosened and knocked out, and then a sliver broken off from that plank, tapering from the…
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