Little v. Superior Rapid Transit Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Superior Court of Douglas County. This action was brought to l’ecover damages for injuries received by the plaintiff, September 1, 1893, on North Third street in West Superior, caused by a collision of one-of the defendant’s street cars, propelled by electricity, with a phaeton in which the plaintiff was riding, and which collision is alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence.
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APPEAL from tbe Superior Court of Douglas County. This action was brought to l’ecover damages for injuries received by the plaintiff, September 1, 1893, on North Third street in West Superior, caused by a collision of one-of the defendant’s street cars, propelled by electricity, with a phaeton in which the plaintiff was riding, and which collision is alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence. The defendant answered by way of admissions and denials and allegations of contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. At the close of the trial the jury returned a special…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The evidence on the part of the plaintiff tends to prove that she and another person were riding in a phaeton with Mrs. Jones, who was an experienced driver; that Mrs. Jones was siting on the right-hand side of the phaeton; that the horse was going west on a walk, between the curb of the street and the south rail of the south track; that a sprinkling wagon was approaching from the west, about a block away; that to avoid the sprinkling wagon the driver, Mrs. Jones, attempted to cross the defendant’s tracks by turning and going diagonally in a northwesterly direction, at an angle of about…
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