Stewart v. City of Ripon
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lac County. This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff, a lad eleven years of age, alleged to have been caused by a defective sidewalk in one of the public streets of the defendant city. It appears that the plaintiff on a certain evening was passing along such sidewalk; and that he stepped., into a hole therein and Hell, thereby injuring one of his arms..
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lac County. This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff, a lad eleven years of age, alleged to have been caused by a defective sidewalk in one of the public streets of the defendant city. It appears that the plaintiff on a certain evening was passing along such sidewalk; and that he stepped., into a hole therein and Hell, thereby injuring one of his arms.. The testimony is conflicting as to the nature and extent of the injury, but it tends to show a fracture of the humerus near the elbow, and a dislocation of the…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
The exceptions taken during the trial to the rulings of the court on objections to the admission of testimony are few and unimportant, and are not relied upon by the learned counsel for the defendant. Hence they require neither discussion nor statement.
1. To the charge of the court but a single exception necessary to be considered was taken. The court (among other things) instructed the jury as follows: “If you find for the plaintiff, and that his present condition is the natural result of such injuries, he is entitled to receive such sum as in your judgment, under all the circumstances of…
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- Duffy v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
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