Thoresen v. La Crosse City Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Crosse County. This action is for damages for tbe death of tbe plaintiff’s intestate, caused by alleged negligence of the defendant.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Crosse County. This action is for damages for tbe death of tbe plaintiff’s intestate, caused by alleged negligence of the defendant. Tbe complaint states, in substance, that October 17, 1892, between 7 and 8 o’clock in the evening, tbe deceased was traveling in a wagon drawn by a horse along King street in an easterly direction, and while crossing Fourth street at the intersection of these streets her wagon was struck by a street car of the defendant going in a northerly direction along the center of the latter street, and her wagon was broken and…
1Opinion of the CourtPinney, J.
The evidence in this case, we think, was such as to require the submission of the case to the jury. The testimony on the part of the plaintiff tended very clearly to show that the defendant, by its car driver, was negligent in the conduct and management of its car, under the circumstances as described by the witness Harold "Wold, and there are some facts and circumstances that tend to corroborate this view. There is no doubt that the driver looked at, and back towards, the south-bound car; but there is a- decided conflict of evidence as to the relative positions of the wagon and his car, and…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Houfe v. Town of FultonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Baltimore City Passenger Railway Co. v. McDonnell ex rel. McDonnellCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1876
- Hill v. City of Fond du LacWisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
- Ewen v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1875
- Collins v. South Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
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