Rowley v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeai. from a judgment of the circuit court for Juneau county: J. J. Enurr, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, a young woman twenty-three years of age, while walking upon the platform in front of defendant’s station building at the village of Mather, Juneau county, Wisconsin, at about 8:30 p. m.
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Appeai. from a judgment of the circuit court for Juneau county: J. J. Enurr, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover for personal injuries received by the plaintiff, a young woman twenty-three years of age, while walking upon the platform in front of defendant’s station building at the village of Mather, Juneau county, Wisconsin, at about 8:30 p. m. May 10, 1906. The village has about 100 inhabitants, and the railroad passes through it in a northeasterly direction, but will be treated for convenience as running north and south. The village clusters about the station. There is one street,…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, C. J.
1. The first contention made isi that a verdict for defendant should have been directed because the proof was undisputed that the truck wa's left by its employee in a perfectly safe position. The defendant had but one em*213ployee at the station, one De Long, who combined the functions of freight and passenger agent and baggage master. He testified that about half an hour before the accident he had taken the truck into the freight house and unloaded therefrom three or four sacks of oats, and had then brought it out and put it between the ’stove standing on the platform and the west side of the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Baxter v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1899
- Mauch v. City of HartfordWisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
- Townley v. Chicago, MilwauKee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1881
- Ward v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1899
- Lee v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1898
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