Kreuziger v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Dodge County. Action to recover damages for injuries to the person of the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the wrongful acts and negligence of the defendant’s servants. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. There was a special verdict finding the facts in favor of the plaintiff and assessing her damages at $1,100. Prom the judgment entered thereon the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtOeton, J.
The facts of this case are mainly the same as in the previous case of Stutz v. C. & N. W. R. Co., ante, *159p. 147, and they will be more fully stated in that case, and the errors assigned which are common to both cases will be there considered. The facts are in short as follows: The plaintiff and a lady friend, Mrs. Stutz, entered the caboose of one of the company’s freight trains, at Juneau, in this state, to ride to Minnesota Junction, about three miles north. The train stopped a considerable distance south of the depot at the junction, and they were informed by the conductor that they must…
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