Harper v. Holcomb
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Lawbence W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for a personal injury. The plaintiff claimed this: He went into tk-e timber country in Iron county, Wisconsin, to serve defendant on a deer-hunting expedition, his duty being to locate defendant and son in convenient places to shoot deer which he might start from surrounding territory and cause to approach near thereto.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Lawbence W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for a personal injury. The plaintiff claimed this: He went into tk-e timber country in Iron county, Wisconsin, to serve defendant on a deer-hunting expedition, his duty being to locate defendant and son in convenient places to shoot deer which he might start from surrounding territory and cause to approach near thereto. He so located them and went some distance therefrom, passing through a nearby swamp in an effort to discover deer. Hot observing evidence of any he returned,…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRshall, J.
Several assignments of error, argued at considerable length by counsel for appellant, as we view the case, are not very material. However, we will refer to them briefly.
Evidence was permitted of experiments made some time after the occurrence complained of for the purpose of showing appellant might readily have distinguished respondent from a deer had he paid reasonable attention to the matter. Such evidence was competent, if the conditions were so far similar to those existing at the time and place of the injury as to render the result of the experiments of any substantial use in determining…
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