Pease v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Saule County. Action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Saule County. Action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion. The jury found a special verdict as follows: 1. Was tíhe deceased, Randall Pease, a brakeman in the employ of the defendant upon a passenger train of the de5 fendant? A. Yes. 2. Was the deceased injured at Elroy, Wis., on the 7th of February, 1882, by being caught between two passenger cars of the train on which he was serving; and did his death…
1Opinion of the Court
Oole, O. J.
The first error relied on for a reversal of the judgment is based on the refusals of the trial court to allow the plaintiff to make such proof as she could, as to the care used by the defendant in repairing the broken chains which connected the lever with the draw-bar. When these chains are in ordei’, a brakeman, while standing on the platform of the car, can uncouple the cars by means of the lever. It appears that the conductor, when at Evansville, knew that the chains on the south end of the rear St. Paul car and the north end of the forward Winona car were broken, and one of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Heine v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1883
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