Strang v. City of Kenosha
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Kenosha county: E. B. Belden, Circuit Judge. Personal injury. The complainants allege that the defendant is a municipal corporation; that one Erickson was the owner and the driver of an automobile in which the deceased husbands of the plaintiffs were riding at the time of injuries resulting in their death; that the automobile, traveling in an easterly direction, was suddenly and without warning precipitated into an excavation…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Kenosha county: E. B. Belden, Circuit Judge. Personal injury. The complainants allege that the defendant is a municipal corporation; that one Erickson was the owner and the driver of an automobile in which the deceased husbands of the plaintiffs were riding at the time of injuries resulting in their death; that the automobile, traveling in an easterly direction, was suddenly and without warning precipitated into an excavation and as a result of such precipitation the steering apparatus of the automobile was broken, the driver lost control of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed May 3, 1921:
Rosenberry, J.
The undisputed facts show that the accident in question happened on Elizabeth street just easterly of a point where Salem avenue joins Elizabeth street. Elizabeth street runs east and west and there is upon it a single track of street railway. Salem avenue extends southwesterly beyond the corporate limits of the defendant city. At the point near the juncture of Salem avenue and Elizabeth street Kappus Brothers, at the time of the injuries, had excavated on their, property on the south side of and fronting on Elizabeth street for a…
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