Legal Opinion

Zalewski v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided December 3, 1935PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtFeitz, J.

Plaintiff was injured by being struck on the back by the rear end of a streetcar as it swung outward while rounding a curve in the track at a street intersection. The *543car was at the rear of an eastbound, two-car tram, eighty-nine feet long, on which she had been a passenger. She and a number of other passengers had alighted therefrom when it had been brought to a stop with its front end on the north and south crosswalk at the intersection. There the tracks on which that car was to proceed, curved to the north; and as a car made that curve, the rear end thereof would gradually swing further…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Peters v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1935
  2. Terrell v. Trimble CountyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1908
  3. Widmer v. West End Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
  4. Gannaway v. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1914
  5. Wheeler v. Des Moines City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1927

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Brandenburg v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.California Supreme Court · 1946
  2. Elder, Receiver v. Rutledge, Admx.Indiana Supreme Court · 1940
  3. Steinburg v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1936
  4. Miller v. Utah Light & Traction Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1939
  5. Hadrian v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Transport Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1942

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