Yellick v. Milwaukee Northern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: John J. Gregory, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff through the negligence of the defendant. Yellick, a man fifty-six years of age, was a laborer employed on July 14, 1916, by Michael Byrne & Brothers Company, cement contractors.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: John J. Gregory, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff through the negligence of the defendant. Yellick, a man fifty-six years of age, was a laborer employed on July 14, 1916, by Michael Byrne & Brothers Company, cement contractors. On the date above mentioned the Byrne Company was engaged in laying a cement sidewalk at certain premises on the west side of Sixth street, between Chestnut and Prairie streets, in the city of Milwaukee. A concrete mixer had…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
Plaintiff testified that he had worked at this job three days; that he knew the cars passed the place frequently while he was there. He stated that on the occasion in question he passed over the plank from the curb towards the mixer, pulling the wheelbarrow behind him by its two handles; that he looked to the north on Sixth street before he reached the mixer at a point about eight feet from the car tracks and saw no' car; that his view was unobstructed (a distance of about -340 feet) ; that he went down the plank and to a point near the track; that he dropped the barrow handles, turned…
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- Meissner v. Southern Wisconsin Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1915
- Bubb v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1917
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