Griswold v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Outagamie County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants. The facts are stated in the opinion. The jury found a special verdict to the effect (1) that the plaintiff boarded the defendant’s passenger train at the time complained of only for the purpose of meeting and assisting his wife, who was a passenger thereon, and not as a passenger; (2) that while upon the steps of the car platform, in the act of leaving the train, he was thrown therefrom by the sudden and violent starting…
1Opinion of the CourtOuton, J.
The facts in this case are substantially and briefly as follows, according to the testimony of the plaintiff, the respondent on this appeal, and other witnesses: The plaintiff went to the depot at Appleton on the morning of the 16th day of February, 1883, about five minutes before the train of the appellant company arrived, at about 4 o’clock and 32 minutes, to meet his wife, whom he expected would be on the sleeper of said train on her return from New York, and to assist her off the train. The morning was dark and foggy. When the train arrived he got on the first sleeper towards Green Bay…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Doss v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas R. R.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1875
- Townley v. Chicago, MilwauKee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1881
- Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. LetcherSupreme Court of Alabama · 1881
- Keller v. Sioux City & St. Paul RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
- Sutton v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
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- Coleman v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1889
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