Davey v. City of Janesville
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Bock county: B. F. DuNwiddie, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by her by reason of the insufficiency and defective condition of a certain sidewalk in the city of Janesville.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Bock county: B. F. DuNwiddie, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by her by reason of the insufficiency and defective condition of a certain sidewalk in the city of Janesville. On July 19,1900, the plaintiff presented her claim to the common council of said city, setting out at length her claim for damages, and describing the alleged insufficiency in the sidewalk, its location, and the manner in which the accident happened. To this she annexed a copy of her notice to the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaedebN, J.
Several jurymen who were residents and taxpayers in the city of Janesville were asked whether the fact that they might be called upon to pay a part of any judgment recovered by plaintiff would influence their action in arriving at a verdict. They answered that it would not. Defendant’s counsel argue that this kind of an examination might have a tendency to cause jurors to lean towai’ds the plaintiff’s side of the case, in order to prove that they were not affected by their • slight financial interest in the result. At common law the authorities are uniform that taxpayers of a city, in an…
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