Bandekow v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Grant ■county: Geoege ClemeNtsoN, Circuit. Judge. Defendant’s railroad ran northerly and southerly through the village of Cassville, Wisconsin, and for several blocks was laid about the center of Front street, elsewhere one of the important streets, but within the block in question substantially uninhabited and untraveled except by pedestrians. .About five feet west of the track was a row of posts eighteen inches high…
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Grant ■county: Geoege ClemeNtsoN, Circuit. Judge. Defendant’s railroad ran northerly and southerly through the village of Cassville, Wisconsin, and for several blocks was laid about the center of Front street, elsewhere one of the important streets, but within the block in question substantially uninhabited and untraveled except by pedestrians. .About five feet west of the track was a row of posts eighteen inches high supporting semaphore wires. The ordinary course of travel for pedestrians was on the track or upon the ballast close to the ends…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
Among some sixty-nine assignments of error is presented one question the answer to which, as we have determined upon it, is so conclusive not only of this appeal but of the final merits of the case that we shall rest the decision thereon without discussing the other assignments. That question is whether there is any evidence which can. justify the affirmative answers of the jury to the two questions of the special verdict mentioned in the statement of facts, namely, whether the defendant was guilty of negligence in having the bucket upon the side of the car, and whether such negligence was…
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