Stilling v. Town of Thorp
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Olarlc County. Action for injuries to the plaintiff’s person, and to his team, wagon, etc., which injuries are alleged to have occurred on the 17th of January, 1880, from the insufficiency or want of repair of a certain bridge in the defendant town, on the road between Chippewa Falls and Colby, alleged to have been laid out, established and opened in pursuance of ch. 159, Taws of 1879. Plaintiff had a verdict for $2,500; and from a judgment…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Olarlc County. Action for injuries to the plaintiff’s person, and to his team, wagon, etc., which injuries are alleged to have occurred on the 17th of January, 1880, from the insufficiency or want of repair of a certain bridge in the defendant town, on the road between Chippewa Falls and Colby, alleged to have been laid out, established and opened in pursuance of ch. 159, Taws of 1879. Plaintiff had a verdict for $2,500; and from a judgment . thereon the defendant town appealed. 1. The court erred in excluding the testimony offered to prove that the highway…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
It is urged that the bridge or road, at the time and place of .the injury, was a county highway, adopted as such, and that the county of Clark, and not the defendant, was bound to keep it in repair.
*531The defendant offered in evidence a petition purporting to be signed by forty-seven freeholders and residents of the towns of Thorp and Hixon, in Clark comity, to the board of supervisors of that county, “ to establish a county road ” on a line designated, commencing at a point at the west line of Clark county and running east and including the line of road in question, which is described as “ the…
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