Denby v. Willer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of MilwauJcee County. Action for a personal injury to the plaintiff caused by her falling over a block of wood about three feet long, lying upon the sidewalk in front of the defendant’s planing-mill, on Cedar street in the city of Milwaukee. The allegations of the complaint, the evidence, and the instructions to the jury are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL from the County Court of MilwauJcee County. Action for a personal injury to the plaintiff caused by her falling over a block of wood about three feet long, lying upon the sidewalk in front of the defendant’s planing-mill, on Cedar street in the city of Milwaukee. The allegations of the complaint, the evidence, and the instructions to the jury are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The answer admitted the ownership of the premises, denied all the other allegations of the complaint, and alleged that if the obstruction was placed, or caused to be placed, upon the sidewalk, as averred in…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The respondent brought this action against the appellant to recover damages for an injury sustained by her in falling over a block of wood standing on the sidewalk in front of the appellant’s premises, in the city of Milwaukee, while she was passing along said walk about eight o’clock in the evening of August 11, 1882. The evidence shows that at the place where the injury was received the *243sidewalk was a planked walk about fourteen feet wide, and that tlie block over which the respondent stumbled and fell was standing on the walk, about three feet from the edge thereof next to the street…
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