Seaver v. Town of Union
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Waupaca county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. Action to recover compensation for a personal injury alleged in tbe complaint to have been sustained under tbe following circumstances: On January 19, 1900, one of the public highways in the defendant town was insufficient at a point particularly described, in that, for a distance of about 100 feet south and about 600 feet north of such point, the traveled part thereof was worn down…
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Waupaca county: Chas. M. Webb, Circuit Judge. Action to recover compensation for a personal injury alleged in tbe complaint to have been sustained under tbe following circumstances: On January 19, 1900, one of the public highways in the defendant town was insufficient at a point particularly described, in that, for a distance of about 100 feet south and about 600 feet north of such point, the traveled part thereof was worn down by travel and by the washing of surface water to a depth of from ten to twenty inches, forming a narrow channel or cut…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRshall, J.
Many questions, by proper exceptions to rulings of the court, were preserved for consideration, and were brought to our attention by proper assignments of error and fully discussed by counsel both in the oral and the printed arguments, which in our view of the case are immaterial; therefore, in the statement which we have compiled from the record we have omitted all parts of the history of the litigation not essential to an understanding of the single question upon which the appeal turns. ■ We shall not discuss the subject of whether the verdict is sustained by the evidence as to the highway…
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