Hanlon v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: WaeeeN D. TaeRawt, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff, on October 11, 1900, was, and bad been for a considerable time, a member of the fire department of Milwaukee.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: WaeeeN D. TaeRawt, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff, on October 11, 1900, was, and bad been for a considerable time, a member of the fire department of Milwaukee. On that day, in response to an alarm of fire, and in performance of his duty, be proceeded to drive bis hose wagon southward on Sixteenth street and across Vliet street, rapidly, as usual, some seven or eight miles an hour, sounding the rotary gong thereon, which, according to the evidence, was audible at a distance from two to eight blocks away. When he reached the north…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The finding that the defendant’s servant negligently operated its car is not seriously controverted. In its support there was evidence of extraordinary speed — twenty to twenty-five miles per hour — and that nothing was done to check that speed till within some twenty feet of collision, although the plaintiff’s team was in plain sight when the car was 100 feet from the crossing, and although bis gong bad been regularly sounded for several blocks; Indeed, it is in-ferable that the motorman neglected to keep any lookout ahead during a run of some eighty feet of approach to the crossing, for be…
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