Zalewski v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
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
- Peters v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1935
- Terrell v. Trimble CountyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1908
- Widmer v. West End Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Gannaway v. Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1914
- Wheeler v. Des Moines City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1927
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3Cited by7 opinions
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- Elder, Receiver v. Rutledge, Admx.Indiana Supreme Court · 1940
- Steinburg v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1936
- Miller v. Utah Light & Traction Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1939
- Hadrian v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Transport Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1942
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