Lehan v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Brown county: N. J. Monahan, Judge. This action was brought for personal injuries claimed to have been received by plaintiff while being ejected from one of defendant’s passenger trains at Rhinelander, Wisconsin, on October 16, 1916, at about 11 o’clock p. m.
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Appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Brown county: N. J. Monahan, Judge. This action was brought for personal injuries claimed to have been received by plaintiff while being ejected from one of defendant’s passenger trains at Rhinelander, Wisconsin, on October 16, 1916, at about 11 o’clock p. m. Defendant admitted the purchase by plaintiff of a ticket for passage on its train from Rhinelander to Appleton Junction, and by way of answer alleged that when plaintiff presented himself as a passenger to board the train, he was intoxicated and under the influence of liquor; that he was…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
On the trial the plaintiff called as an adverse witness defendant’s claim agent who had investigated this case and obtained written statements from various persons. He testified, apparently without objection being interposed, giving the names and addresses of the witnesses with whom he had talked and that he had in his possession written reports made by the local physicians of the defendant company at Rhinelander and Appleton. Demand was made by plaintiff’s counsel for the production of the report of the physician at Rhinelander, but that, on objection, was refused. He was then compelled to…
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- Parkes v. LindenmannWisconsin Supreme Court · 1915
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