Wilde v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Waukesba county: MaetiN L. Luece:, Circuit Judge. On April 23,1910, Edna Wilde, tbe fifteen-year-old daughter of tbe plaintiff, was struck and killed by an electric car-ón defendant’s railway at Sunny Slope station, about two and one-balf miles from ber borne. Tbe body was placed upon tbe car and taken to Milwaukee by defendant’s employees, and left at a morgue in said city.
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• Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Waukesba county: MaetiN L. Luece:, Circuit Judge. On April 23,1910, Edna Wilde, tbe fifteen-year-old daughter of tbe plaintiff, was struck and killed by an electric car-ón defendant’s railway at Sunny Slope station, about two and one-balf miles from ber borne. Tbe body was placed upon tbe car and taken to Milwaukee by defendant’s employees, and left at a morgue in said city. Tbis action was brought, to recover damages for tbe unlawful removal of tbe body from tbe place at which tbe accident occurred. Tbe jury returned a general verdict in…
1Opinion of the CourtBaeNEs, J.
Plaintiff’s daughter was billed by one of defendant’s cars at a highway crossing in Waukesba county. Cars stopped at tbis crossing to receive and discharge passengers, and deceased and a companion were intending to take a car to Waukesba when the accident occurred, deceased being struck by a car east bound for Milwaukee. There was a shelter for passengers at tbe crossing, but it was not inclosed and no one was in charge of it. Tbe same was true of County Line, tbe next stopping place east of where tbe injury oc*131curred. There had been a severe snow storm which rendered the county roads well…
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