Nolan v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for Manito-woc county: 1ST. S. Gilson, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff sued to recover damages for the loss of the greater part of one of his feet, caused by the wheels of defendant’s locomotive passing over the same, about 200 feet west of the platform of its station at Eeedsville, an unincorporated village having a population of about 500 and several traveled streets.
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Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for Manito-woc county: 1ST. S. Gilson, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff sued to recover damages for the loss of the greater part of one of his feet, caused by the wheels of defendant’s locomotive passing over the same, about 200 feet west of the platform of its station at Eeedsville, an unincorporated village having a population of about 500 and several traveled streets. The main track of defendant’s road passes through block 51 of the village in a nearly east and west direction, the station building being somewhat east of the center of this block. A…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNEY, J.
1. The plaintiff’s counsel contends that the circuit court erred in not holding that under the provisions of ch. 467, Laws of 1891, the defendant was absolutely liable for all damage caused to the plaintiff on a traveled street of the village of Eeedsville by running its locomotive on the occasion in question faster than fifteen miles an hour, without causing the engine bell to be rung before and while crossing such street.
*22The only act in force prior to said cb. 467, concerning the speed of railway trains, was sec. 1809, R. S., which, limited the speed of trains in cities and villages to six…
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