McCoy v. Milwaukee Steeet Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Superior Court of Milwaukee County. This is an action for personal injury sustained by the plaintiff while engaged in traveling on West Water street, in Milwaukee, at a point between Clybourn and Sycamore streets, upon horseback, as a messenger boy, by reason of the horse stumbling and falling upon the plaintiff, and the car running into and injuring him. The complaint is in the usual form in such cases.
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APPEAL from the Superior Court of Milwaukee County. This is an action for personal injury sustained by the plaintiff while engaged in traveling on West Water street, in Milwaukee, at a point between Clybourn and Sycamore streets, upon horseback, as a messenger boy, by reason of the horse stumbling and falling upon the plaintiff, and the car running into and injuring him. The complaint is in the usual form in such cases. The answer consists of admissions of incorporation, etc., denials, and alleges as a separate and second defense to the complaint that any injury sustained by the plaintiff was…
1Opinion of the CourtOassoday, J.
The car of the defendant, which it is claimed ran upon, the plaintiff, was at the time of the accident going north on West Water street towards Grand avenue. According to the plaintiff’s testimony the accident occurred somewhere between Olybourn and Sycamore streets. According to the defendant’s witnesses, it occurred between Fowler and Olybourn streets. It is undisputed that the accident occurred about half past 6 o’clock on the evening of April 27,1891, in broad daylight; that the plaintiff was at the time about eighteen years of age, riding a large bay horse, blind in one eye, called…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Telford v. FrostWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
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- Shekey v. EldredgeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1888
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