Brown v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Dane county: R. G. SiebeckeR, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages for a personal injury to August Zilmer, deceased, and also damages for his death.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Dane county: R. G. SiebeckeR, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages for a personal injury to August Zilmer, deceased, and also damages for his death. The complaint states all formal matters, and, in substance, that ■on the 29th day, of August, 1895, at the incorporated village of Deerfield in this state, at a crossing of defendant’s railroad with a public street in such village, August Zil-mer was traveling on the street with due care, riding in a wagon drawn by a horse, and while so circumstanced defendant’s servants caused one'of its…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 16, 1898:
Marshall, J.
Two questions are presented on this appeal : (1) Can brothers and sisters of one wrongfully killed recover damages from the wrongdoer to compensate them for the pecuniary loss thereby sustained ? (2) Does a cause *139of action for damages to a person, because of an injury from the effects of which, death ensues, survive to his administrator for the benefit of his estate ? The decision of either -of these questions in favor of the appellant must result in a reversal of the order appealed from.
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2Cases cited17 opinions
- Holton v. DalyIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
- Hurst v. Detroit City RailwayMichigan Supreme Court · 1891
- McCarthy v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
- Tully v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Needham v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1865
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