Mueller v. Milwaukee Street Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Superior Court of Milwaukee County. Action to recover damages for an injury to plaintiff’s carriage, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant and its servants. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL from tbe Superior Court of Milwaukee County. Action to recover damages for an injury to plaintiff’s carriage, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant and its servants. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment of nonsuit. as to what was the proximate cause of the injury, and to the point that plaintiff could recover although the stopping of defendant’s car was not the sole cause, cited Stetler v. O. & Jf. W. R. Go. 46 Wis. 491; Atkinson v. Goodrich Transp. Go. 60 id. 141; Papworth v. Milwaukee, 64 id. 389; Shermcm v.…
1Opinion of the CourtOetoN, J.
The facts of this case are as follows: The plaintiff was an undertaker and liveryman, and occupied his own carriage in front of a funeral procession of carriages and buggies, going north in Fourteenth street in Milwaukee towards the cemetery. About the time the plaintiff arrived at the crossing over North avenue, the car of the defendant was at the same crossing, going north on said avenue, and the car was suddenly stopped directly across Fourteenth street, which compelled the plaintiff to stop suddenly within about five feet of the car. This caused the first carriage in the rear also to stop…
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