Kollock v. City of Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This is an appeal from an order granting the defendant leave to amend its answer in an action brought by the plaintiff against it to recover damages for injuries suffered by him while driving in a carriage along Gorham street in said city, the complaint charging that the defendant negligently -caused and permitted a heavy rope to be stretched across said street at a point near the intersection of said street with Carroll street,…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. This is an appeal from an order granting the defendant leave to amend its answer in an action brought by the plaintiff against it to recover damages for injuries suffered by him while driving in a carriage along Gorham street in said city, the complaint charging that the defendant negligently -caused and permitted a heavy rope to be stretched across said street at a point near the intersection of said street with Carroll street, the rope being firmly and securely fastened to a tree on either side of said street, and drawn taut, so that in the…
1Opinion of the CourtPinney, J.
Sec. 1, ch. 471, Laws of 1889 (1 S. & E. Ann. Stats, sec. 13395), provides: “ Whenever any injury has happened or shall happen to any person or property in any city or municipal corporation or towns by reason of any defect in any highway, street, alley, or public ground, or for any other cause for which such city or municipal corporation *460or towns would be liable, and such defect, incumbrance, or other cause of such injury shall be caused by, (wise from, or be produced by, the wrong, default, or negligence of any person or corporation or towns, such person or corporation or towns so guilty of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Flanders v. Town of MerrimackWisconsin Supreme Court · 1880
- Coffin v. RichSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1858
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- Hackett v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1891
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