Phillips v. Town of Willow
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Biehland County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The plaintiffs had a verdict in the circuit court, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appeals. To the point that evidence of other accidents was inadmissible, they cited, besides authorities referred to in the opinion, Blair v. Pelham, 118 Mass. 420; Whitney v. Gross, 140 id. 232; Ogle v. BrooJcs, 87 Ind. 600; Gibbons v. Wis.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Biehland County. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The plaintiffs had a verdict in the circuit court, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appeals. To the point that evidence of other accidents was inadmissible, they cited, besides authorities referred to in the opinion, Blair v. Pelham, 118 Mass. 420; Whitney v. Gross, 140 id. 232; Ogle v. BrooJcs, 87 Ind. 600; Gibbons v. Wis. Valley P. Go. 58 Wis. 335. They cited, besides cases cited in the opinion, Willey v. Portsmouth, 35 N. H. 303; Mil v. P. c& P. R. Go. 55 Me. 438; Gibbons…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
This is an action to recover damages for injuries sustained by the female plaintiff while passing along a public highway in the defendant town. She and her husband were riding in a cutter, which was overturned by the runner striking or going over a stone. It was claimed that this stone was in or very near the traveled track of the highway, and constituted a defect or dangerous obstruction thereof. On the part of the plaintiffs, witnesses were allowed to testify, against the objection of the defendant, that, near the time the accident occurred, they drove along the highway, — in one case with…
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- Morse v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
- City of Chicago v. PowersIllinois Supreme Court · 1866
- Kent v. Town of LincolnSupreme Court of Vermont · 1860
- Hudson v. C., & N. W. R. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1882
- Parker v. Portland Publishing Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1879
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- Curtis & Gartside Co. v. PribylSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913
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