Cairncross v. Village of Pewaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Waukesha County. The complaint alleges, in effect, the incorporation of the defendant village and its duties with respect to streets therein; that April 26, 1889, the defendants Zaun, Flanni-gan, and Hengel negligently, carelessly, and unlawfully placed partially across Main .street, adjoining the lake in said village, a steamboat belonging to them, forty-eight feet inlength, ten feet in width, and ten or fifteen feet in height, at a place…
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APPEALS from the Circuit Court for Waukesha County. The complaint alleges, in effect, the incorporation of the defendant village and its duties with respect to streets therein; that April 26, 1889, the defendants Zaun, Flanni-gan, and Hengel negligently, carelessly, and unlawfully placed partially across Main .street, adjoining the lake in said village, a steamboat belonging to them, forty-eight feet inlength, ten feet in width, and ten or fifteen feet in height, at a place in said street where the same was not more than forty-five feet in width inside the walks; that the defendant village…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The defendants Flamnigan and Hengel owned the boat, and were the active agencies in placing it with one end in or near the water of the lake, and the other about the middle of Main street, about 5 o’clock in the afternoon of April 25, 1889. There appears to have been sufficient space between the end of the boat and the other side of the street for teams to pass and repass. The boat remained in that position all night and a good share of the next day. About 10 o’clock in the forenoon of April 26, 1889, the plaintiff led the horse? in question along that street.' past the'boat, without injury,…
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