Glatz v. Kroeger Bros.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. T. Fairchild, Circuit Judge. This is an action by the widow of one Cyprian Glatz to recover damages for the death of her husband resulting from a collision between an automobile truck operated by the defendant and a motorcycle on which the deceased was riding at about 12:30 p. m. February 9, 1917, at the intersection of Nineteenth and Galena streets in the city of Milwaukee.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. T. Fairchild, Circuit Judge. This is an action by the widow of one Cyprian Glatz to recover damages for the death of her husband resulting from a collision between an automobile truck operated by the defendant and a motorcycle on which the deceased was riding at about 12:30 p. m. February 9, 1917, at the intersection of Nineteenth and Galena streets in the city of Milwaukee. Galena street runs east and west and Nineteenth street north and south. The deceased was going east on the south side of the roadway on Galena street,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed March 4, 1919:
Winslow, C. J.
There were but four eye-witnesses of the accident and they were all examined on the trial. Two school girls, aged respectively twelve and fifteen years, were standing on the northeast corner of Galena and Twentieth streets about 300 feet from the place of collision and watched the deceased riding eastward on Galena street until the collision occurred, and both testified that the motorcycle reached the street intersection first and that the truck shot out from behind a building on the northwest corner of Galena and Nineteenth streets,…
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