Nagle v. Hake
Wisconsin Supreme Court
"Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeRen T. Williams, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the infant plaintiff by accidentally coming in contact with a telephone wire charged with a heavy current of electricity. There is very little dispute as to the facts.
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"Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeRen T. Williams, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the infant plaintiff by accidentally coming in contact with a telephone wire charged with a heavy current of electricity. There is very little dispute as to the facts. It appears by the evidence that the appellant, Halve, was a bouse mover by occupation, in Milwaukee; that about June 20, 1901, he was moving a building along Walker street, which is a street running east and west on the south side of said city; that an nnnsed…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNSLOW, J.
The assignments of error are very numerous, and we shall not treat each one separately, but 'shall endeavor to classify them, and treat each class sufficiently in detail to indicate the conclusions reached on all of the assignments separately.
The alleged errors in refusing to grant a nonsuit, and in. refusing to direct a verdict, and in refusing to direct judgment for the defendant notwithstanding the verdict, may all *261be considered and disposed of together. It is said that there is no proof of actionable negligence, nor of proximate canse sufficient to take the case to the jury. With this we…
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